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What is the number in scientific notation?



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Answered by GPT-4o mini
To express the number 855,000,000,000 in scientific notation, you can follow these steps:

1. Identify the first non-zero digit, which is 8 in this case.
2. Determine how many places you move the decimal point to convert the number to a number between 1 and 10. You would move the decimal point 11 places to the left in this case.
3. Count the number of places moved to determine your exponent for 10.

Thus:
\[
855,000,000,000 = 8.55 \times 10^{11}
\]

So, in scientific notation, the number 855,000,000,000 is written as **8.55 × 10^11**.

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