Question

How should the decimal point in 52.48 be moved to determine the product 52.48×10 to the power of 5?

Enter your answers in the boxes to correctly complete this statement.

The decimal point should be moved ___ places to the right because there are ___ zeros in 10 to the power of 5.

Answer 1

Decimal point moved 5 places to the right, since 10⁵ has 5 zeros in it.

Explanation:

52.48 is multiplied by 10 to the power of 5, that is 100, 000, we will get ,

`52.48 * 10^(5)=5248000.00`

When 52.48 is multiplied by 100,000, we will get 5248 followed by 5 zeros, 524800000.

Now we have to count the decimal point from left to right, so we will get 5248000.00, zeros after the decimal point has no value.

The decimal point should be moved _5__ places to the right because there are _5__ zeros in 10 to the power of 5.