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Is 95.2*10^-4 correctly written in scientific notation

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Answer:

Not in scientific notation

The correct form is 9.52*10^-3

Explanation:

We can only have 1 digit in front of the decimal in scientific notation. This number has two

95.2*10^-4

Move the decimal 1 place to the left to get the decimal in the right place means we add 1 to the exponent

9.52*10^(-4+1)

9.52*10^-3

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