Two things to remember when writing large
numbers in scientific notation:

The decimal point always goes
after the first non-zero digit.

  The exponent tells us how many places
we move the decimal to the right
in standard form.

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Scientific Notation

Answer choices in standard notation


 


  1, 700, 000

  17, 000, 000

  170, 000
 



  2, 250, 000

  22, 500, 000

  22, 500
 


 


  40, 000

  4, 000

  400, 000
 


 


  954, 300, 000, 000

  954, 300, 000

  95, 430, 000
 


 


  33, 000

  3, 300

  330, 000

 

Standard Notation

Answer choices in scientific notation


1, 500
 
 

 

 


4, 830, 000
 
 

8, 000, 000, 000
 
 

60, 000
 
 

102, 000
 
 



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