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One type of insect is 0.0052 meter long. What is this length in scientific notation?

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Ok so...

You want to move the decimal point to the right until the number is greater than 1 but less than 10.

The number will end up being 5.2

You moved the decimal point 3 times to the right.
So it will be 5.2 x 10^-3. It is negative because you moved it to the right. The exponent would be positive if you moved it to the left

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