What is 7,235,002 in scientific notation?

1 Answer
Sep 27, 2016

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 10p and moving decimal q digits to left is equivalent to dividing by 10q.

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

In other words, it is written as a×10n, where 1a<10 and n is an integer.

To write 7235002 in scientific notation, we will have to move the decimal point six points to left, which literally means dividing by 106.to compensate

Hence in scientific notation 7235002=7.235002×106 (note that as we have moved decimal one point to right we are multiplying by 106 .