<em>To write in scientific notation, the number does not nessicarly have to be a decimal, </em><u><em>BUT</em></u><em> it does have to be </em><u><em>BELOW </em></u><em>ten.</em>
<em>To write </em>508,000,000 <em>in scientific notation,you must make it a number less than ten multiplied by a power of ten.</em>
<em>The answer to this question would be </em>5.08*10^6 <u><em>(5.08 multiplied by ten to the power of 6)</em></u>