You scientific notation determine which of these numbers has the least value $123,893 31,892 or 12,786 write your answer in scientific notation Express to the exact decimal place

Answer 1

To determine which number has the least value, we can rewrite all the numbers in scientific notation.

$123,893 = 1.23893 \times 10^5$
$31,892 = 3.1892 \times 10^4$
$12,786 = 1.2786 \times 10^4$

Comparing the exponents, we can see that $3.1892 \times 10^4$ has the least value.