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Scientific Notation Guided Notes

Scientific notation is used to write very large or very small numbers in a standardized way. Numbers are written as a coefficient multiplied by a power of 10. For large numbers, the decimal is moved to the right to create the exponent, and for small numbers it is moved to the left. Changing between standard and scientific notation involves moving the decimal left or right based on a positive or negative exponent.

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Scientific Notation Guided Notes

Scientific notation is used to write very large or very small numbers in a standardized way. Numbers are written as a coefficient multiplied by a power of 10. For large numbers, the decimal is moved to the right to create the exponent, and for small numbers it is moved to the left. Changing between standard and scientific notation involves moving the decimal left or right based on a positive or negative exponent.

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Scientific Notation Guided Notes

Scientific Notation is used to ________________ numbers that are very large or very small.

For example, the Earth has a mass of about And the mass of a Carbon atom is about
5,973,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. 0.000000000000000000000000000166 kg.
This can be expressed as This can be expressed as
____________________. _____________________.

To be in proper scientific notation


the coefficient must be written with
Standard to Scientific Notation If there is no decimal
present, assume it
Large numbers bigger than 1 goes at the end of the
Ex: 65,000,000 last whole number.
Move the decimal point to the
___________ so that there is one non-
zero digit to the left of the decimal point
and count the number of spaces moved. Example 1
289,800,000
This will be the exponent and
____________. ___________________

Values smaller than 1


Ex: 0.0000987
Move the decimal point to the
___________ so that there is one non-
zero digit to the left of the decimal point
0
and count the number of spaces moved. Example 2
This will be the exponent and 0.000567
____________.
___________________

----------------- Going Backwards-Scientific Notation to Standard ----


-------------
When changing scientific notation to standard notation, the exponent tells you if
you should where & how many times to move the decimal. (Use zeros to fill in
places.)

Positive Exponent Negative Exponent

If an exponent is positive, the number If an exponent is negative, the number


gets ___________, so move the decimal gets ___________, so move the decimal to
to the ___________. the ___________.
Example 3 Scientific Example 4
5.093 x 106 Notation 1.976 x 10-4
Practice ___________________ ___________________

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