How do you write 0.25 million in scientific notation?
2 Answers
Explanation:
In scientific notation, we write a number so that it has single digit to the left of decimal sign and is multiplied by an integer power of
Note that moving decimal
Hence, we should either divide the number by
In other words, it is written as
Now
Hence in scientific notation
Explanation:
A million is
So we have 0.25 of that amount which is written
But scientific notation is such that we have just 1 non zero digit to the left of a decimal point and everything else to the right of it.
So the objective is to and up with
But this is a different value. So we include a correction without actually a applying it
So instead of writing
This is the same as