Question

How do you write 33,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 in scientific notation?

Answer 1

`3.34xx10^22`

Explanation:

`3.34xx10^22= 33400000000000000000000`

You have to move the decimal space twenty-two times to the left and each time you move it to the left you are increasing the exponent by `10^1`. For example, 100 would be written in scientific notation as `10^2` because you would need to move the decimal space two times to the left.

Remember that the number multiplied with `10^x` needs to be between 1 and 10.

Therefore, in this case, the number needs to be 3.34. To attain this number, we would need to move the decimal twenty-two times to the left.

Thus the answer is `3.34 times 10^22`.