What is 5400000 in scientific notation?

Answer 1

5.4 X 106

Answer 2

5.4 X 106

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Instead of giving you the answer for the question only, let met explain this to you.

5400000

You want to write 5400000 in scientific notation.

after 54, 00000 is merely a place holder.

These need to be separated from the actual important number "54"

scientific notation always follow the formula: (A) x 10^(B)

, where (A) should not be smaller than 1 AND should be smaller than 10. (B) should be integer only (negative, 0 or positive)

To write 5400000 in scientific notation:

see where you can place a decimal to make (A) for your scientific notation formula. 0.54 is too small, and 54 is too big. 5.4 works perfect for (A) - remember (A) should not be smaller than 1 AND should be smaller than 10.

then it's 5.4 00000 - Look at your decimal. To find out your (B) from your sci. notation, we have to find out how far is the decimal (the decimal that you just placed between 5 and 4) from your decimal location "ones" (for 5400000, it's the last 0 from right). You "hop" the little dot that is between 5.4 to the "ones" decimal. how many times did it hop? 6 times! (B) is positive when a number (before you do scientific notation) is larger than 10. Your number is much larger than 10 (5400000, duh!). Your (B) is 6.

(A) x 10^(B) is the scientific notation formula. our (A) is 5.4 and our (B) is 6. Plug-n-chug time~!

Your answer is 5.4 x 10^6
It is: 5.4*10^6 in scientific notation

Answer 3

5x24