What is .00035 in scientific notation? Use the ^ symbol to indicate an exponent.

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Answer 1

To convert the number 0.00035 into scientific notation, you can express it as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10.

1. Move the decimal point in 0.00035 to the right until you have a number between 1 and 10. This gives you 3.5.
2. Count how many places you moved the decimal. In this case, you moved it 4 places to the right.
3. Since you moved the decimal to the right, the exponent will be negative.

Thus, 0.00035 in scientific notation is:

\[ 3.5 \times 10^{-4} \]

Using the ^ symbol to indicate the exponent, it can be written as:

3.5 × 10^-4