Scientific notation is used so that the order of the number is known in first glance. The value of the given number in scientific notation is given by: Option B: $6.9 \times 10^{-6}$

<h3>How does scientific notations work?</h3>

The number is written in the form $a \times 10^b$ where we have $1 \leq a < 10$

The number b shows the order, which is the most important figure for which scientific notation is used. It tells us how much order large or small a value is in powers of 10. We can for a time, ignore the value of 'a' for two comparable quantities and only compare their orders(this type of comparison is useful when difference is too big, like size of human to size of a star etc sort of comparisons).

Scientific notations have some of the profits as:

Better readability due to compact representation
Its value in terms of power of 10 is known, which helps in easy comparison of quantities differing by a large value.

For the given case, the number in consideration is 0.0000069

Rewriting it in fraction form, we get:

$0.0000069 = \dfrac{69}{10000000} = \dfrac{69}{10^7} = 69 \times 10^{-7} = 6.9 \times 10 \times 10^{-7}\\\\0.0000069 = 6.9 \time 10 ^{-7 +1} \\0.0000069 = 6.9\times 10^{-6}$

(we used two facts: first that : $\dfrac{a}{b} = a \times \dfrac{1}{b}$

and second that: $a^{-b}= \dfrac{1}{a^b}$

Thus, the value of the given number in scientific notation is given by: Option B: $6.9 \times 10^{-6}$

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A rectangle is inscribed in a right isosceles triangle, such that two of its vertices lie on the hypotenuse, and two other on th

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Refer to the attachment for the diagram of the problem.

Let us call the two identical sides of the isosceles triangle with s. Since we know that the hypotenuse measures 45 inches, we can find s by using the Pythagorean Theorem:
$45^{2} = s^{2}+ s^{2}$
$45^{2} = 2s^{2}$
$45^{2} = 2s^{2}$
$1012.5 = s^{2}$
$s=31.82$

We can notice that the figure will have similar triangles with the smaller triangle having one length equal to 5x. We then compute for the equivalent hypotenuse of the smaller triangle (denoted as y).
$\frac{31.82}{5x} = \frac{45}{y}$
$y=7.07x$

We can then solve for the value of x by applying the Pythagorean Theorem in the smaller triangle.
$(7.07x)^{2} = (5x)^{2}+ (31.82-2x)^{2}$
$50x^{2} = 25x^{2}+ 1012.5-127.28x+4x^{2}$
$0= -21x^{2}-127.28x+1012.5$
$x=4.55,-10.61$

We ignore the negative value since there is no negative side. x is therefore 4.55 thus the dimensions of the rectangle would be 22.75 and 9.1. For the other case, the dimensions would simply be inverted since we would be dealing with a rectangle with its width longer than its length.

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