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8.4 x 106

Basically, since this is all on the left side of the decimal point, you take the first 2 digits, round them (need to look at the 3rd digit '9' for rounding), then you set the 10n exponent , where n is the number of decimal places it takes to get from the shortened number to the original number (rounded)

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