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## nylicia_123 one year ago Convert 0.0001 to a power of 10

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1. anonymous

move the decimal to the right 10 times

2. anonymous

0001000000.

3. DanJS

change it to a number between 1 and 10, not including 10, times 10^power

4. DanJS

scientific notation

5. nylicia_123

thank u

6. anonymous

exactly what i said you are making it so difficult lol

7. DanJS

the given decimal is the same as 10 to the -4 power

8. DanJS

1*10^(-4)

9. DanJS

also could call it 1 / 10000 1 ten thousandth = 0.0001 = 1/10000 = 10^-4

10. nylicia_123

okay so say i had 7.2 $7.2\times 10 ^{-3}$ and i had to convert to standard form i wouls simply just ove the decimal to the left and my answer would be 7.002 @DanJS

11. anonymous

.0072

12. anonymous

you move it to the left three places

13. anonymous

if its positive more it to the right if it is negative move it to the left and depending on the number in the degree is how many places you move the decimal

14. DanJS

recall, $a^{-b} = \frac{ 1 }{ a^{+b} }$

15. DanJS

10^(-3) is the same as 1/10^3 or 1/1000

16. DanJS

you are dividing by that power of ten, the number will become smaller by 4 decimal places

17. DanJS

sorry, 3 decimal places, it is actually 10^-3 in the prob you gave

18. DanJS

or just remember like Boots said left for negative powers, right for positive

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