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suppose a sheet of 100 stamps is 0.57 millimeters thick. If a stack of sheets contains 100,000,000 stamps, how many millimeters thick is the stack? Write the answer in scientific notation.
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suppose a sheet of 100 stamps is 0.57 millimeters thick. If a stack of sheets contains 100,000,000 stamps, how many millimeters thick is the stack? Write the answer in scientific notation.

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divide 100,000,000 by 100

then count the zeros in your answer

take that number and move the decimal that many times to the right, adding zeros as needed

answer = 570000
S. N. = 57 × 10^4
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