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Practice: Activating Prior Knowledge

Write three real-world examples of quantities that you would use scientific notation to express.
(Hint:What measurements are really large or really tiny?)

Practice: Activating Prior Knowledge Write three real-world examples of quantities-example-1
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Scientific notation is used to write really large numbers, or really small numbers using less digits. For example:

1. Earth's distance from the sun 150,000,000 kilometers. We can rewrite this in scientific notation as 1.5 x
10^(8)

2. The length of a skin cell is 0.00003 meters. We can rewrite this in scientific notation as 3.0 x
10^(-5)

3. The world population is about 7,000,000,000. We can rewrite this in scientific notation as 7 x
10^(9)
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