Tamara has 12 pencils. There are three red pencils and p other pencils. Write an equation to represent this situation.
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First, you need to find where you can move the decimal point to so that there is only one non-zero digit to the left of it.
Move the decimal point, and that is the first part done.
Add "".
For the last part - the power, you need to find how many decimal places you moved the decimal point. In this case, we moved it to the right 2 places, so the power is .
If, for example, we had moved the decimal point three places to the left, the power would be .