How do you write 14.05 billion in scientific notation?
1 Answer
Explanation:
"billion" is a number with nine zeros behind it
So, we can move the decimal point (for the given
In scientific notation, this number would be written in a more simplified form than writing out all those zeros in the following way:
14,050,000,000
However, the rule for scientific form is that the number before the decimal point must be a non-zero number less than 10. In other words, there may only be one digit before the point.
The decimal point must be moved yet another place to the left to give
or
Multiplying,
or 14,050,000,000