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What is 0.000000986 in scientific notation?
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it's going to be a negative exponent, since the number is less that 1.
move the decimal to where 986 is more than one but less that 10.
9.86X10^-7

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0.000000986 = 986 * 10^(-9)=\boxed{ 9.86 * 10^(-7)}
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