Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or very small numbers. A number is written in scientific notation when a number between 1 and 10 is multiplied by a power of 10.
The given number is 458,700
= 4.587 * 10^5
You can see 4.587 is less than 10.
The number of decimal point moved is represented by 10^5.
We are given the following number and we are to express it in scientific notation:
458,700
Scientific is a way of expressing numbers (specially large numbers). When a number between 1 and 10 is multiplied by a power of 10, it is said to be written in scientific notation.
The given number can be expressed in scientific notation as: