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What is 50,000 in exponential notation?

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To write 50000 in scientific notation, we will have to move the decimal point four points to left, which literally means dividing by 104 . Hence in scientific notation 50000=5×104 (note that as we have moved decimal four points to left and thus divided by 104 , we are multiplying by 104 to compensate.

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