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What is 290 million in scientific notation?

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2.9 x 10 to the 2 power
User Manny Fitzgerald
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290 million = 290,000,000


scientific notation would be 2.9 x 10^8

the 8 comes from the number of spaces you need to move the decimal point to the left to get 2.9

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