Question

The diameter of a bacterium is displayed on the calculator as 2E-6 where E represents the × 10 part.
Based on the output of the calculator, the size of the bacterium written in scientific notation would be (BLANK)
× 10 (BLANK)
of a meter.

In standard form, the value would be represented as (BLANK)
.

Answers

GPT-4o mini
To express the diameter of the bacterium, which is displayed as \(2E-6\) in scientific notation, we can interpret this as:

\( 2E-6 = 2 \times 10^{-6} \)

Thus, based on the output:

The size of the bacterium written in scientific notation would be:

\( 2 \) × \( 10^{-6} \) of a meter.

In standard form, the value \(2 \times 10^{-6}\) can be calculated as follows:

\[
2 \times 10^{-6} = 0.000002
\]

So, in standard form, the value would be represented as:

\( 0.000002 \).

To summarize the answers for the blanks:

1. **First blank:** \( 2 \)
2. **Second blank:** \( -6 \)
3. **Third blank:** \( 0.000002 \)