A model of a 1960s sports car is 254 mm long. The real car is 5,200 mmlong. Write the length of the real car using scientific notation.

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Rarrarrarrr · Answer 1 · 2023-09-21T12:48:06+0000

$\mathbf{5.2*}10^3$

1) Since the real car is 5200mm long then we can rewrite that 5200 length as a Scientific Notation.

2) We can write it as a rational number with two decimal places times a power of ten.

$5200\operatorname{mm}=\mathbf{5.2*}10^3$

Hence, the length of that car in scientific notation