Final answer:
To express 52.9 pm in scientific notation, move the decimal point 12 places to the right and write it as 5.29 x 10^-11 m.
Step-by-step explanation:
To express 52.9 pm in scientific notation, we need to determine the power of 10 based on the number of places we need to move the decimal point to get a numerical value between 1 and 10. Since we need to move the decimal point 12 places to the right to get from picometers (pm) to meters (m), the power of 10 is negative. Therefore, 52.9 pm can be expressed in scientific notation as 5.29 × 10-11 m.