Question

Help me solve the word problem and show me how to check it

Answer 1

You have the following information:

thickness = 5*10^-6 m

length = 8*10^4 m

In order to write the previous quantities in standard form, remind that the power of 10 indicates the number of zeros you add to the right of the coefficient (if the exponent is positive) or to the left (if the exponent is negative).

Then, based on the previous description, you have:

`\begin{gathered} 5\cdot10^(-6)m=0.000006m \\ 8\cdot10^4=80000m \end{gathered}`

As you can notice, in the first case the zeros are added to the left and in hte second case the number of zeros are added to the right.