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The Earth's human population is approximately 7,900,000,000 people.

Express this number using scientific notation.

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The Earth's human population, approximately 7,900,000,000 people, can be expressed using scientific notation as 7.9 x 10^9.

Scientific notation is used to express extremely large numbers using a number between 1 and 10.

In this case, that number is 7.9

We need to move that decimal spot 9 places to the right to get 7,900,000,000. Therfore, to state that number in scientific notation, we would write it as:

7.9 * 10^9

I hope this helped!

~~~Harsha~~~

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