Question

Determine the values of mm and nn when the following mass of the Earth is written in scientific notation: 5,970,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kgkg.

Answer 1

Answer:

"m" and "n" are 5.97 and 24 respectively.

Explanation:

Standard form which is a scientific notation [m × 10^n] can be regarded as way to reduce large figures to small one in a decimal firm and this is usually done for conviniency sake.

✓Let us find "m" , to do this we will shorten the long number so that it will be from 1-9. And this is 5.97, hence

m = 5.97

✓ " n" can be determined by counting the digits from our right hand then stop where the decimal point was put when we were finding our "m". Hence

n= 24

✓ if we input the values to the scientific expresion above, we have

m = 5.97 and n = 24

Hence, the Standard form = 5.97 × 10^24 kg which is the scientific notation.