Question
The walking speed of a tortoise is 0.058 meters per second.
How is this number written in scientific notation?
How is this number written in scientific notation?
Answers
GPT-4o mini
To express 0.058 in scientific notation, we can rewrite it as follows:
1. Move the decimal point two places to the right to get 5.8.
2. Since we moved the decimal point two places to the right, we multiply by \(10^{-2}\).
So, 0.058 can be written in scientific notation as:
\[ 5.8 \times 10^{-2} \text{ meters per second} \]
1. Move the decimal point two places to the right to get 5.8.
2. Since we moved the decimal point two places to the right, we multiply by \(10^{-2}\).
So, 0.058 can be written in scientific notation as:
\[ 5.8 \times 10^{-2} \text{ meters per second} \]