Question

How do you simplify `5.0 times 10^-3 L`?

Answer 1

You can work this out to be `0.0050L`, because
`10^-3=1/10^3=1/1000`

Explanation:

But most of the time we use prefixes in stead of the `10`-powers or numbers with a lot of zeroes in front (or behind).

The prefix for `10^-3` or `1//1000`th is milli (abbreviated as m)

So:
`5.0*10^-3L=5.0mL`