Question

rewrite 1/10000000 as a power of 10

Answer 1

How many zeros are in 1/10000000?

Answer 2

oops,, its 8 zeros

Answer 3

I count 7. Are you saying it was supposed to be 8 originally?

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

ok. since 100000000 is in the denominator, make the 8 negative.

1/10000000 = 10^-8

Answer 6

the number of zeros is the exponent on 10

Answer 7

Oh, Okay thank you

Answer 8

you're welcome

Answer 9

@peachpi thanks for refreshing my memory on that... I saw the problem with 100000000 which is 10 to a positive exponent until I saw that fraction 1/ that number... and then while reading your comment, it just occurred to me that 1/ that number is related to (that number)^-{exponent}

Answer 10

blah I meant (10)^{-exponent}