0.00001 can be written as a power of ten by moving the decimal point five places to the right to make the number between 1 and 10. This results in 1 x 10^-5, where the negative exponent indicates that the decimal point is moved to the left of the original number.
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0.00001 as a power of ten is 1 x 10^-5. It's like saying you have a penny and you're trying to make it sound fancy by calling it 0.00001 dollars. Just move that decimal place five spots to the left and you've got your answer.
Remember any number expressed as a decimal is a fraction of some whole number, or less than one. For example .1 is 1/10, .01 is 1/100, .001 is 1/1000, and so on. So .00001 would equal 1/100,000, or 1/105.
To express numbers less than one, negative exponents are used. The number is better expressed like this: 10-5.
.1 tenth .01 hundredth .001 thousandth .0001 ten-thousandth .00001 hundred- thousandth .000001 millionth so on and so forth
10,000,000,000.
Ten to the 24th power, 1024, is called ten to the 24th power.
Ten to the third power means 10 x 10 x 10 and the answer to that is 1000
Ten to the negative sixth power in decimal form is 0.000001