Question

How do you write 7,930,000,000 in scientific notation?

Answer 1

`=7.93 xx10^9`

Explanation:

The number that has the biggest impact if it is the one that is changed. It is called `color(blue)(" 'the most significant figure'")`.
It is the 7 as it is counting in the biggest units.

I say the next bit the way I do to avoid some classic mistakes that occur.

Keeping the decimal place where it is, 'slid' the number 9 places to the right so that you end up with:

`7.930` Although you have the same digits their value, written this way, has changed. So we need to convert them back to the original value.

We have reduced its value by a factor `10^9` so we need to increase it by the same size of factor:

`7930000000= (7930000000)/(color(brown)(10^9))xxcolor(brown)(10^9)`

`=7.93 xx10^9`
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In principle we have multiplied the original value by`" "color(brown)( 1 )" "`but in the form of `color(brown)(10^9/10^9)`