Question

An American green tree frog tadpole is about 0.00001 kilometer in length when it hatches. Write this decimal as a power of 10.

Answer 1

To write it in a decimal of power 10, we move the decimal place to the right. Since the movement of the decimal place is to the right, the power of 10 will be a negative number based on the number of movements.

From 0.00001 to 1, the decimal place is moved 5 times, therefore:

1 x 10^-5 kilometer