In scientific notation, you want (a number less than 10 and more than 0) times 10^x so 48978 made so that it is less than 10 and more than 0 is 4.8978 we count how many times we divided 48978 by 10 to get 4.8978 and we get 4 so 4.8978 times 10^4 or on an online test 4.8978e+04
