Question

Convert 4,700,000,000 from standard form to scientific notation.

470 × 107

47 × 108

4.7 × 109

478

Answer 1

You need to divide by 10^9 to get the first term of the solution which is 4.7. Then you need to multiply 4.7 by 10^9 to get back to the original value. So the correct choice is\[4.7\times 10^{9}\]