SCIENTIFIC NOTATION



Astronomy Scientific Notation Name________________

Standards:

➢ Use mathematics to express and establish scientific relationships (e.g., scientific notation)

Purpose: Scientists often deal with very small and very large numbers, which can lead to a lot of confusion when counting zeros! Astronomers in particular often deal with numbers that are very large. In order to make writing these numbers easier, they are expressed as powers of ten.

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Scientific notation takes the form of M x 10n where 1 ≤ M ................
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