Answer:
It is all determined by how many spaces and which way the decimal point moves.
Step-by-step explanation:
So here are two examples
<em>Example 1:</em>
500000.00
To write this in scientific notation you would move the decimal place to the left.
You would move it 5 digits to the left so the exponent of 10 would be 5
<em>Example 2</em>
0.0000042
Here to write this in scientific notation you move the decimal place to the right.
You would move it 6 digits to the right so the exponent would be -6