Question

What is the number 0.0062985632 written in scientific notation to three significant figures?

Answer 1

0.0062985632

6.30 x 10^ -3

( Its 6.29 but if you are rounding to the nearest thousandths then its 6.30 x 10 to the power of -3 since jumped 3 spaces back. Remember that when it starts with a 0 , you are moving to the first digit which in this case is 6)

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Answer 2

6.30 x 10^⁻₃

Step-by-step explanation:

Step 1: Move the decimal place to the right to create a new number from 1 up to 10.

So we have 6.30 to 3 sig figure

Step 2:Determine the exponent, which is the number of times you moved the decimal.

In this question, we moved it thrice

So we have 10^-3

Step 3:Put the number in the correct form for scientific notation

0.0062985632= 6.30 x 10^-3

To 3 significant figure.