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In general, when a number written in scientific notation includes a positive exponent, the absolute value of that number is __________.

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positive exponents are big numbers; so your number gets bigger
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In general, if a number is written in a scientific notation which includes an exponent that is positive, the absolute value of that number is positive. This is because if the number is bigger than 1 and it is in absolute value, then that means it is a positive number.
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