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Scientific notation is needed any time you need to express a number that is very big or very small. Suppose for example you wanted to figure out how many drops of water were in a river 12 km long, 270 m wide, and 38 m deep (assuming one drop is one millilitre). It's much more compact and meaningful to write the answer as roughly 1.23x10 to the 14th power than it is to write 123120000000000.
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When do we use scientific notation in real life?
When working with really large or really small numbers.
Who would use scientific notation in real life?
Scientists? It's handy for writing out any large numbers...
What are some real life uses for scientific notation?
Scientific notation is a short hand way of expressing numbers that are very large or very small such as 10,000,000 = 1.0*107 or 0.0000001 = 1.0*10-7
What are real life uses of exponents?
Scientific notation is a way to write very large or very small numbers using exponents. For example 2000 is 2x103 . We can do the same thing with negative exponents and write very small numbers like 1/2000 which is 2x10-3 . So one real life use of exponents in in scientific notation.
How is scientific notation used in daily life?
It usually isn't. Scientific notation is used for very large and very small numbers, that are not normally used in your daily life. Unless your "daily life" involves work in science or engineering.
When do we use scientific notation in real life?
When working with really large or really small numbers.
Who would use scientific notation in real life?
Scientists? It's handy for writing out any large numbers...
What are some real life uses for scientific notation?
Scientific notation is a short hand way of expressing numbers that are very large or very small such as 10,000,000 = 1.0*107 or 0.0000001 = 1.0*10-7
How is scientific notation used in life?
Scientific notation is used to compute very large or very small numbers.
What are the example of scientific method related to biology?
The scientific is used in real life by everyone on a daily basis. Some real life examples would be cooking, growing plants, or even diagnosing a medical problem.
What are real life uses of exponents?
Scientific notation is a way to write very large or very small numbers using exponents. For example 2000 is 2x103 . We can do the same thing with negative exponents and write very small numbers like 1/2000 which is 2x10-3 . So one real life use of exponents in in scientific notation.
How is scientific notation used in daily life?
It usually isn't. Scientific notation is used for very large and very small numbers, that are not normally used in your daily life. Unless your "daily life" involves work in science or engineering.
What is the scientific notation and why is it useful?
You use scientific notation when it comes to "too large" or "too small" numbers. The reasons why using scientific notation is useful are that it saves time to do the computation and also that it makes people's life easier to compute values instead of writing them out completely!
What are some real life examples of a nonagon?
There are very few real life examples of nonagons. The only examples that I can think of are a few coins.
What are some real life examples of cylinders?
some real life examples are a water bottle, pipes, cans
What are some four real-life examples of the results of scientific investigations?
I have the same question! Too bad I can't answer it because if I did, I wouldn't be here!
What is significance of learning how to rewrite decimal notation to scientific notation in your daily life?
It is essential to write very small and very large numbers
