Question

A bicycle company produced 5,401,200 bicycles a year. Write the number of bicycles in scientific notation.

Answer 1

To write this as scientific notation, we have to go left until we have 1 digit. So, the decimal point will be at:

5 . 401200

Now, we mutliply this with 10 to the power of n.

n would be the number of times we moved left.

We moved:

6 times!

Thus, we can write this as:

`5,401,200=5.4012*10^6`