How do you write 73,480,000 in scientific notation?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-28T03:37:28

#7.348*10^7#

to write 73,480,000 in scientific notation begin by moving the decimal until the 7 is in the ones place.
7.348

Since we needed to move the decimal place 7 places this is #10^7#

So the scientific notation looks like #7.348*10^7#

Answer 2 · 2018-08-08T02:48:56

#7.348*10^7#

The key realization is that when we write numbers in scientific notation, we want one digit before the decimal point.

In our case, we must loop it #7# times to the left. The number of times we loop it is our exponent, and looping left makes it positive. Thus, we have

#7.348*10^7#

Hope this helps!