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OpenStudy (anonymous):

The diameter of the planet Jupiter is 143,000 kilometers. In scientific notation, this would be expressed as 1.43x10

OpenStudy (kitten_is_back):

do you have answer choices love

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

What do you have to multiply 1.43 by to get 143, 000?

OpenStudy (mrnood):

count the number of places to the right you have to move the decimal point to go from 1.43 to 143000 that is the index of 10^?

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

The answer is 100, 000, now how many zeros does 100,000 have?

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

The number of zeros is the exponent on the ten.

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

$$\Huge 10_1 0_2 ,0_3 0_4 0_5 = 10^5$$

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

$$\Huge 143,000 = 1.43 \times 10^n$$

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