Question

The Earth is approximately 93 million miles away from the Sun. What is this number written in proper scientific notation?

Answer 1

93 million miles in numeric form is \[93,000,000\]
Consider that there is a decimal at the end of the number.
\[93,000,000.\]

Answer 2

Now move the decimal as many times until all the zeros get to the end of the decimal. The number of zeros will help you determine what the exponent will be for the base (93).