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What is the power of 10 when 0.000028 is written in scientific notation

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The power of 10 is -5

Move the decimal point to the right until the first significant number and in this problem it is 2. It took 5 places to the right until going past the 2 and the number would be negative because going right past the decimal point will make any power negative.
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