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By Nicole Freeman
Scientific notation (also known as standard form or standard index form) is a
different way of writing numbers and is generally used when a number is really big
or small and is too inconvenient to be written in decimal form.
Examples:
23
1 |x| < 10
6.022 10
Coefficient Base
(always 10)
(all are significant
figures)
Significant Figures
Significant Insignificant
56746 .000000798
100.0
Significant Figures (Continued)
If the number is an answer from an addition or 1000.67 + 1000.376 = 2001.046
subtraction problem, round to the same number
of decimal places as the addend with the least
amount of decimal places.
2.00 103
3. 1900.0
1. Identify the number of significant figures in
the original number.
1. .0000876 2. Place the decimal correctly within those
significant figures; disregard other
numbers (until decimal placement).
3. Multiply this number by 10 (Leave it written
out).
2. 876 8.76 4. Count how many places the decimal
moved. This number becomes the
exponent to 10.
3. 8.76 10
8.76 10-5
5
1. 7465400
2. 74654 7.4654
3. 7.4654 10
4. 7465400
6
6
7.4654 10
1. 1900.0
2. 19000 1.9000
3. 1.9000 10
4. 1900.0
3
1.9000 x 103
If the number is an answer
1. 178900.1 - 678.98 = 178221.12 from an addition or
subtraction problem,
round to the same number
2. 17822112 1.7822112 of decimal places as the
addend with the least
amount of decimal places.
1.8
3. 1.8 10
4. 178900.1
1.8 105
5
If the number is an answer
1. 129802 200. = 649.01 from a multiplication or
division problem, it
contains no more
2. 64901 6.4901 significant figures than
the factor with the least
amount of significant
6.49 figures.
3. 6.49 10
4. 649.01
2 6.49 102
Practice Problems (Converting to Scientific Notation)
1. .0000876 4. 178900.1 - 678.98 =
3. 1900.0
1.9000 x 103