Question

78 million converted in scientific notation

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

7.8 × 10⁷

Explanation:

To write a number in scientific notation, we want the decimal behind the first non-zero digit in the number. The first non-zero digit in 78 is 7; this means we want 7.8. In order to have the decimal point behind the 7, we need to move the decimal 7 places. This is the exponent of 10 in our scientific notation, which gives us

7.8 × 10⁷