How do you write 0.0000563 in scientific notation?

1 Answer
Feb 11, 2016

5.63 * 10^-5

Explanation:

Scientific Notation places the first non 0 digit immediately to the left of the the decimal point.

If the original numbe (in this case 0.0000563 ) is less than 1, then you are increasing the size, so must divide by 10 for each place the decimal point moves right.
In this case 5 places.

dividing by 10 5 times is represented by 10^-5

hence the answer 5.63 * 10^-5