## anonymous one year ago Help with scientific notation and conversations

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1. BloomLocke367

2. BloomLocke367

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3. anonymous

How to convert 4,012 millimeters into kilometers

4. welshfella

scientific notation general form is N * 10^n where N is a number between 1 and 10 ( not including 10) and n is an integer ( not 0)

5. BloomLocke367

Okay, I like to use the King Henry Died Monday Drinking Chocolate Milk to help with conversions. So: King=Kilometers Henry=hectometers Died=Decameters Monday=meters Drinking=Decimeters chocolate=centimeters Milk=millimeters this is fairly easy to use. you start with millimeters so you move the decimal point to the left to get to kilometers. you'd have to move it 6 places to the left.. do you understand what I mean? if not, I'll explain it in a different way

6. anonymous

Yes I do

7. BloomLocke367

So tell me what you'd get and I'll help you convert it into Scientific Notation if that's what you need to do

8. welshfella

lol - i like that one!!

9. BloomLocke367

$$\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}$$ @welshfella lol - i like that one!! $$\color{#0cbb34}{\text{End of Quote}}$$ are you talking about KHDMDCM?

10. welshfella

yes

11. BloomLocke367

heheh, thanks c:

12. anonymous

I need to convert 4012 millimeters into kilometers and if I move the decimal I get 0.4012

13. BloomLocke367

you haven't moved it enough.

14. anonymous

How many place would I move the decimal

15. BloomLocke367

right now, you have 0.4012 Decameters... move it 2 more places to the left to get Kilometers

16. BloomLocke367

here, I'll show you.

17. anonymous

So it would be 40.12

18. BloomLocke367

|dw:1441561266410:dw| does that make sense?

19. anonymous

Not really

20. BloomLocke367

your decimal point was at the end when it was millimeters... you want it to be at the END of kilometers.. so you move it that many times until it is.

21. anonymous

Ok now I get it

22. BloomLocke367

hahahaha c: so your answer should be 0.004012 Km. do you need to make it into scientific notation?

23. anonymous

No I need to figure out how to make it into this

24. BloomLocke367

what do you mean?

25. anonymous

How to put into conversions