Scientific Notation Flashcards

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What is “Scientific Notation”?

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It is a short hand way of writing very large or very small numbers without writing all the zeros.

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It is a number system that uses ____.

A

Powers of ten

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It reduces or increases the number so that it has a value of ___.

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at least one but less than ten.

Ex: 1.32 9.3454 4.26

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