All scientific notation does. For example, if you have 600,000, then scientific notation would read 6*10^5, and the 5 tells you to move the decimal point to the left five numbers. And if you have 0.00006 it would read 6*10^-5, and the -5 tells you to move the decimal point to the right five numbers.
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To write 99.7 in scientific notation, you can move the decimal point to the right until there is only one non-zero digit to the left of the decimal point. Count the number of places you moved the decimal point. Since you moved it two places, the scientific notation representation of 99.7 would be 9.97 × 10^1.
The term is same as 4300000.0. From the starting point, move 6 decimal places to the left and write out the term in scientific notation based on the number of decimal places shifted. You get 4.3 x 106.
To write 49000 in scientific notation, move the decimal point to the left so that there is only one non-zero digit to the left of the decimal point. In this case, it would be 4.9. Then, count the number of places the decimal point was moved. In this case, it was moved four places to the left. Therefore, 49000 in scientific notation is 4.9 x 10^4.
To write 38050 in scientific notation, you move the decimal point so that there is only one non-zero digit to its left. In this case, you would move the decimal point three places to the left, resulting in 3.8050. The exponent is determined by the number of places the decimal point was moved, so the scientific notation for 38050 is 3.8050 x 10^4.