Question

How do you write `0.0483` in scientific notation?

Answer 1

`4.83` x `10^-2`

Explanation:

move the decimal point until you have one significant figure in front of it and then count the number of times you've moved it. moving it to the left yields a positive power and moving it to the right yields a negative power.
Eg. 0.00042464000, moving the point to after the first significant figure gives `4.2464000` x `10^-4`
Eg2 235246000, moving the point that would be at the end of this to the first significant figure to the left gives `2.35246000` x `10^8`