Question

How do you convert 0.0036 into scientific notation?

Answer 1

Move the decimal three places to the right leaving only 1 digit to the left of the decimal point and multiply by a power of ten.

Explanation:

`0.0036 = 3.6 xx 10^-3`

Answer 2

`3.6*10^-3`

Explanation:

When we write numbers in scientific notation, we want one non-zero digit before the decimal.

This means we need to loop the decimal `3` times to the right. The number of times we looped it is our exponent, and looping it right makes it negative.

Thus, we now have

`3.6*10^-3`

Hope this helps!