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What would 489,000,000,000,000,000 in scientific notation

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Scientific notation is always #.##x10^#. Never ##.# or .###. Be careful with that.

For this question the answer is 4.89x10^17.

There are 15 zeros plus the 2 zeroes when you move the decimal over twice to 4.89
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