Question

How do you express the answer for `(35,000)(.00046)` in scientific notation?

Answer 1

Probably easiest to convert your 2 terms into scientific notation first:

`(35000)xx(.00046)`
`=(3.5xx10^4)xx (4.6xx10^(-4))`

`=(3.5 xx 4.6) xx (10^4 xx 10^(-4))`

`= 16.1 xx 10^0`

or (in normalized notation)
`= 1.61 xx 10^1`