How do you express 56,700,000 in scientific notation?

3 Answers
Feb 20, 2017

#56,700,000=5.67xx10^7#

Explanation:

In scientific notation, we write a number so that it has single digit to the left of decimal sign and is multiplied by an integer power of #10#.

Note that moving decimal #p# digits to right is equivalent to multiplying by #10^p# and moving decimal #q# digits to left is equivalent to dividing by #10^q#.

Hence, we should either divide the number by #10^p# i.e. multiply by #10^(-p)# (if moving decimal to right) or multiply the number by #10^q# (if moving decimal to left).

In other words, it is written as #axx10^n#, where #1<=a<10# and #n# is an integer.

To write #56,700,000# in scientific notation, we will have to move the decimal point seven points to the left, which literally means dividing by #10^7#.

Hence in scientific notation #56,700,000=5.67xx10^7# (note that as we have moved decimal seven points to the left we are multiplying by #10^7#.

May 11, 2017

A = #5.67 * 10^7#

Explanation:

Generally scientific notation is as follows:

Have a large integer #abc00000#
When we have scientific notation, we normally take the first digit of the integer, #a# and then place a decimal point then putting the digits #b# and #c#.

Furthermore, we then find out the total amount of digits need to create the number by using the following formula:

=

#"0m" + 2#

Where:

#"m"# = "amount of"

All the best!

Aug 8, 2018

#5.67*10^7#

Explanation:

The key realization is that when we write numbers in scientific notation, we want one digit before the decimal point.

In our case, we must loop it #7# times to the left. The number of times we loop it is our exponent, and looping left makes it positive. Thus, we have

#5.67*10^7#

Hope this helps!