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A lake in California contains about 8,500,000,000,000 gallons of water. How can this number be written in scientific notation?

A lake in California contains about 8,500,000,000,000 gallons of water. How can this number be written in scientific notation?
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A lake in California contains about 8,500,000,000,000 gallons of water. How can this number be written in scientific notation?

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8.5x10^12

decimal moves left 12 spaces so that the 85 part is greater than 1 but less than 10
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