Question

What is 980,000 expressed in scientific notation?

Answer 1

Check where the point is in the number.
In this case thats after the last zero, so 980,000.00
Start from the point, then go to the left.
Count every digit you go to the left untill the point is after the first digit.
Then leave the next two so there are 3 digits left.


So only 9.80 is left.
Now add *10 to the power x. where x is the amount of digits you counted (which is 5 in this case)

So it will be \(\Large9.80*10^5\)