Writing Numbers in Scientific Notation Worksheets, Quiz and Examples
Extremely large and small numbers are often used by Scientists to denote distances, wavelengths, speed of light, growth and decay of bacteria, number of living cells in an organism and many others. For instance, the amount of cells that will prolong a whale for several hours is 400,000,000,000 and the shortest wavelength of noticeable light is 0.0000004 m. These numbers can be written in simpler way using scientific notation. To rewrite a number into a scientific form expressed it in the form \(a \times 10^n\), wherein the absolute of \(a\) is equal to or greater than 1 but less than 10 and \(n\) is any integer. When expressing a number into scientific form, it is better to use the symbol “\(\times\)”instead of “\(\sqcup \)”. Examples of scientific numbers are \(2.3 \times 10^{-2}\) and \(1.2 \times 10^3\).


