How do you convert 0.0036 into scientific notation?

2 Answers
Jul 30, 2018

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 #

Jul 30, 2018

#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!