Can anyone exspess2,750,389 in scientific natation.

Scientific notation converts the number into a form consisting of a number less than 10 times 10 raised to the appropriate power. For example:


etc.

For your problem then, 2,750,389 is between and ,
so you convert it as follows:



Note that in doing this I moved the decimal point 6 places to the left, so that tells me the correct exponent to use is 6.

Hope this helps.

78000

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Originally Posted by ratchet

78000

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What do you mean?