Question

Charles is reading about computers. He learns that a computer processor can perform one command in approximately 0.000000016 nanoseconds. What is this number expressed in scientific notation?

Answer 1

the correct answers are 1.6E-8 and 1.6 × 10-8

Answer 2

1.6 * 10^{-8}

Explanation:

Given the following data;

Time = 0.000000016 nanoseconds

To express in standard scientific notation;

Scientific notation is a standard way of expressing very large numbers in powers of 10.

0.000000016 nanoseconds = 1.6 * 10^{-8} nanoseconds.

Note: count the number of zeros (0s) before 1 and write it to the power of 10.