Question

How do you write `4.76 xx 10^-5` in standard notation?

Answer 1

`0.0000476`

Explanation:

You can just move the decimal point in `4.76` five places to the left to get `0.0000476`.

You could also recognize `10^{-5}=1/(10^{5})=1/100000=0.00001` and `4.76*0.00001=0.0000476`

Yet one more way to think about it is: `4.76\times 10^{-5}=476\times 10^{-7}=476\times 1/(10^{7})=476/(10,000,000)=0.0000476`, which, in words, is "four-hundred-seventy-six ten-millionths"