Write the sum, and then write an equivalent expression by collecting like terms and removing parentheses whenever possible.
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Set up your conversion using dimensional analysis. That's just a fancy way of saying set up your values so you cancel what you don't need and keep what you do. If we want to convert miles per hour to feet per second, we need to convert the miles to feet using the fact that there are 5280 feet in 1 mile, and then convert the hours to seconds using the fact that there are 3600 seconds in an hour. Your set up will look like this (it's all about setting up the fractions correctly): . If you look at that closely, you can see the there is a label of miles on the top in the first fraction and on the bottom in the second fraction. Those cancel each other out by reducing. Then in the bottom of the first fraction there is hours and in the top of the last fraction there is hours. Those cancel out. From top to bottom or bottom to top you can cancel like labels. This leaves us with feet in the top and seconds in the bottom. Now it's a matter of doing the math. You multiply straight across the top and straight across the bottom.
. Simplifying you get 46.933 feet per second.
To convert our number to scientific notation, we are going to move the decimal point to the right until we have only one non-zero digit to the left of the decimal point, and then, we are going to multiply that number by a negative power of 10 equal to the number of times we moved the decimal point to the right:
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Our number is 0.000000016, so we need to move the decimal point 8 times to the right to have </span>only one non-zero digit to the left of the decimal point (1.6). Since we moved the decimal point eight times to the right, we are going to multiply 1.6 by y a negative power of 10 equal to the number of times we moved the decimal point to the right i.e.
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So 0.000000016 expressed in scientific notation is 1.6x
, or in calculator notation 1.6E-8
We can conclude that the correct answers are <span>1.6E-8 and </span><span>1.6 × 10-8</span>
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Our number is 0.000000016, so we need to move the decimal point 8 times to the right to have </span>only one non-zero digit to the left of the decimal point (1.6). Since we moved the decimal point eight times to the right, we are going to multiply 1.6 by y a negative power of 10 equal to the number of times we moved the decimal point to the right i.e.
So 0.000000016 expressed in scientific notation is 1.6x
We can conclude that the correct answers are <span>1.6E-8 and </span><span>1.6 × 10-8</span>