In 2016, a Honus Wagner baseball card sold for about $3,100,000. It became the most expensive baseball card ever sold. How would you write the approximate price in scientific notation?

Answer 1

To write the approximate price of $3,100,000 in scientific notation, you first express it as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10.

1. The number 3,100,000 can be written as 3.1 (moving the decimal point 6 places to the left).
2. Since we moved the decimal point 6 places, we multiply by \(10^6\).

So, in scientific notation, $3,100,000 can be expressed as:

\[ 3.1 \times 10^6 \]