Question

What is 0.000000986 in scientific notation?


_______× 10^----

Answer 1

thanx for helping me out guys

Answer 2

Oh you got it already? I was about to help you though.

Answer 3

9.86x 10 ^7

Answer 4

@gabrielabarker not quite

Answer 5

check again

Answer 6

98500000

Answer 7

to put in scientific notation we want the form a* 10^n where a is greater than zero and less than 10

Answer 8

the easy way to do this
look for the decimal point and count how many places to get "a"
what direction did you have to move?

Answer 9

if you moved right you multiply so to keep the same value you divide to divide means multiplying by a negative power
if you moved left you divided to keep the balance multiply by 10 to the positive number of places you moved