In 2008, the world population is about 6,760,000,000. Write the 2008 world population in scientific notation.

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aihberkhan · Answer

Okay. To find scientific notation you have to move the decimal to the end of the first digit. So it will look like this: $6.760000000$

aihberkhan · Answer

Then count how many digits there are from the decimal to the end of the whole number. So there are $9$ digits. Keep that in mind.

aihberkhan · Answer

Now drop all the zeros. After you do this you should have all the information to write it in scientific notation! Write all the digits that are not zeros. So, $6.76$ would come first. Then write $*10^9$ after it. This is because we got 9 in the beginning and if we multiply $6.76 * 10^9$ you should get $6,760,000,000$.

aihberkhan · Answer

So the final answer is $6.76 * 10^9$

aihberkhan · Answer

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