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The population of a small country is 5,740,000. express this number using scientific notation

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so scientific notation is making the number manageable.

scientific notation is
(a number >1 and <10) times 10^x

we count how many places the decimal has to move to make the number >1 and >10.

the answer is 6.
5.74 times 10^6
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