Answer:
60,250,000,000,000,000 km correctly expressed in scientific notation is 6.025 x 10¹⁶ km
Step-by-step explanation:
Scientific notation is a quick way to represent a number using base ten powers. This notation is used to express very large or very small numbers very easily.
The numbers are written as a product:
a*10ⁿ
where:
- a is a real number greater than or equal to 1 and less than 10, to which a decimal point is added after the first digit if it is a number that is not an integer.
- n = an integer, which receives the name of exponent or order of magnitude. Represents the number of times the comma moves. It is always an integer, positive if it moves to the left, negative if it moves to the right.
To write very large numbers in scientific notation, as in this case, first move the decimal point to the left as many spaces until it reaches the right of the first digit, thus obtaining the value of "a" from the previous expression. In this case this is expressed as:
a=6.025
To get the exponent n of the previous expression, you simply count the amount of spaces that you moved the comma. So in this case n = 16
Finally, 60,250,000,000,000,000 km correctly expressed in scientific notation is 6.025 x 10¹⁶ km