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Shawn said that in standard notation,

7.142 x 107 will have 7 zeros after the
2 because the exponent is a 7. Is he
correct? Why or why not?

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Answer:

Shawn is incorrect.

Explanation:

The decimal is moving 7 places to the right. The 2 is the third digit, so there will be 4 0s after it.

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