Answer:
To convert 675000 to scientific notation, we need to express it in the form a × 10^n, where a is a number between 1 and 10 (but not 10 itself), and n is an integer.
Starting with 675000, we can divide by 10 repeatedly until we get a number between 1 and 10.
675000 ÷ 10 = 67500 (one division by 10)
67500 ÷ 10 = 6750 (two divisions by 10)
6750 ÷ 10 = 675 (three divisions by 10)
Now we have a number between 1 and 10 (namely, 6.75), and we know that we divided by 10 three times, so the exponent is -3.
Therefore, we can express 675000 in scientific notation as:
6.75 × 10^5
(Note that we could also express it as 6.75 × 10^2 × 10^3, but this is not in standard scientific notation, which requires the coefficient to be between 1 and 10.)