WRITING NUMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION (4th) FOURTH QUARTER GRADE 7 MATATAG TAGALOG MATH TUTORIAL

Scientific notation is used to represent very large or very small numbers conveniently. For example, the distance from Earth to the Sun (150 billion meters) or the size of bacteria (0.00000085 meters) can be simplified using this notation.

Scientific notation expresses numbers as a product of a number (a) and a power of 10 (10^n). The number 'a' must be greater than or equal to 1 but less than 10, and 'n' (the exponent) must be an integer. The exponent 'n' indicates how many times the number is multiplied by 10.

To convert a standard number to scientific notation, identify the decimal point and move it to create a number between 1 and 10. Count the number of places the decimal moved. If moved to the left, the exponent is positive. For instance, 150 billion meters becomes 1.5 x 10^11 meters.

For very small numbers, move the decimal point to the right until the number is between 1 and 10. The number of places moved will be a negative exponent. For example, 0.00000085 meters becomes 8.5 x 10^-7 meters.

To convert scientific notation to standard form, identify the exponent. If the exponent is positive, move the decimal to the right; if negative, move it to the left. Fill in zeros as needed. This process is the opposite of converting from standard to scientific notation.

For example, 4.2 x 10^6 (positive exponent) means moving the decimal 6 places to the right, resulting in 4,200,000. For 1.7 x 10^-3 (negative exponent), move the decimal 3 places to the left, yielding 0.0017.

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