How do you write 18.4 billion in scientific notation?

1 Answer
Feb 20, 2018

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

We can write 18.4 billion as: 18,400,000,000

To write this in scientific notation we must move the decimal point 10 places to the left so the exponent for the 10s term will be positive:

#18,400,000,000 = 1.84 xx 10^10#