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It's probably in base ten because we use base ten for all our OTHER work in numbers as well. We learn to write numbers in base ten when in elementary school, and use base ten throughout our lives even if we aren't scientists or mathematicians or students or professionals who need to use scientific notation. So keeping scientific notation in base ten makes it easier for everyone to learn and read.

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What is base in scientific notation?

It is ten.


Why do we use scientific notation and what are the parts of an expression written in scientific notation?

Scientific notation is used to express very large or very small numbers in a more concise and manageable format. It allows us to easily represent numbers using a base number multiplied by a power of ten. The parts of an expression in scientific notation include the coefficient (the base number), the base (always 10), and the exponent (the power to which the base is raised).


Why is 9.854 x 107.6 not a scientific notation?

Scientific notation is always written as a number (between 1 and 10) multiplied by a power of ten. For example: 107.6 in scientific notation would be 1.076 x 102 notice how the first number is between 1 and 10 and it is being multiplied by a power of ten. So the example you gave is not written in the same format and is thus not written in scientific notation. If you were to write it in scientific notation you would multiply the two numbers and then convert the answer to scientific notation and write it as: 1.0602904 x 103


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Scientific notation is a way to express very large or small numbers in terms of powers of what?

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