Answer:
The powers of 10 are things of the form:
10^n.
Where we assume that n is an integer number.
if is equal or larger than 0, then:
We add n zeros at the right of the 1.
so let's write some examples.
10^0 = 1 (we do not add any zero)
10^1 = 10 (we add one zero)
10^2 = 100 (we add two zeros)
...
Now, remember that x^-y = 1/x^y, then:
If n is smaller than zero, then we add n zeros at the left of the 1.
10^-1 = 1/10 = 0.1 (one zero at the left)
10^-2 = 1/100 = 0.01 (two zeros at the left).
Those relations will be useful to always know the exact dimensions of the powers of zero.
Now, we can give a more complete description knowing that:
x^a*x^b = x^(a + b)
Then if we have:
10^3*10^4 = 100*1,000 (and this may be hard to do)
But we can use the above relation:
10^3*10^4 = 10^(3 + 4) = 10^7
Then we know that we must add 7 zeros at the right of the 1.
And this will work for any integer powers of 10.