Question

A model of a 1960s sports car is 254 mm long. The real car is 5,200 mmlong. Write the length of the real car using scientific notation.

Answer 1

`\mathbf{5.2*}10^3`

1) Since the real car is 5200mm long then we can rewrite that 5200 length as a Scientific Notation.

2) We can write it as a rational number with two decimal places times a power of ten.

Hence, the length of that car in scientific notation