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8 x the zero power of ten

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Expression: 8 x 10^0

10^0 = 1, so

8 x 10^0 = 8 x 1
= 8

Another way of looking at it is that the power of 10 tells you how and how far to move the decimal point. If the power is 0, it means “don’t move the decimal point.”
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