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What is 786,000 in scientific notation

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The answer to it is 7.86 x 10 power of 5, because you are moving the decimal to the right if it's positive. I hope that helps.
User Chris Wuestefeld
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The scientific form is
a* 10^x \left \{ {{a\ \textgreater \ 0} \atop {a\ \textless \ 10}} \right. So, the form of scientific notation is
786,000 = 7.86 * 10^5
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