Scientific to Standard
If a one dollar bill is 0.0001 meters thick, how many meters tall would a stack of 4 trillion one dollar bills be? One trillion = 10^12
100 000 000 metres thick.
Convert to standard notation: 3.0 X 10^-3
0.003
At the University of Michigan in the year 1900, there were 3,7 x 10^3 students attending the school. By the year 1950 there were 2,7 x 10^4 students attending the school. How many more students were there in 1950 than in 1900?
23300
What is the Swedish word for Scientific Notation?
Grundpotensform
Light travels 9.45 x 10^15 metres a year. There are about 3.15 x 10^7 seconds in a year. How far does light travel in a second? Answer in standard and scientific form.
Standard: 300 000 000
Scientific: 3 x 10^8
Simplify 5^3 x 5^4
5^7
An African elephant weighs 8 x 10^3 kg. A worker bee weighs 1 x 10^-4 kg, and 4 x 10^4 worker bees live in one hive. How many hives of worker bees will it take to equal the mass of one African elephant?
2000 hives of bees.
Mr. Adam thinks that if you do 10^8 divided by 10^2 the simplified version is 10^4. Is Mr. Adam right? Explain why or why not.
He is wrong; the Quotient Rule is that you subtract the decimals when the base number is the same. Mr Adam divided them, the right answer should be 10^6.
Convert to standard notation: 3.425 X 10^-8
The average man says 10,000 words each day. The average woman says 25,000 words each day. If the population of Earth is 6 billion people, and we assume that half is men and half is women; how many MORE words do women speak than men each day? Answer in Scientific notation and Standard form.
Scientific Notation: 4,5 x 10^13
Standard: 450 000 000 000 000
Solve (4.24 x 10^3) x (5 x 10^4). Show the answer in both standard and scientific notation form.
Standard: 212 000 000
Scientific: 2,12 x 10^8