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Whats standard form of 3.43x 10 to the fifth power

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Answer:

343,000

Explanation:

Imagine there are a bunch of zeros to the right of the thousandths decimal place. If the 10 is raised to the fifth power, you want to move the decimal place to the right 5 times. This makes the new number 343,000. Since there are only 3 sig figs in the original number, there would be no decimal place in the standard form.

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