Moving the decimal point to the right 4 places in a number is the same as _____.

Question

multiplying by 10 -4
multiplying by 4
multiplying by 10 4
multiplying by 10

Answer 1

Moving the decimal point to the right 4 places in a number is the same as multiplying by \( 10^4 \).

This means you take the original number and multiply it by 10,000.