Gain proficiency with using scientific notation and manipulating decimal point positions.
Copy down the problem in your solution. Remember LARS (Left, Add & Right, Subtract)
when moving decimal points. Express all final answers in proper scientific notation, please.
Laugh out loud at least once (preferably in evil-scientist manner) and deny doing so to
confuse your parents.
1. Express 173000 kg in scientific notation (This is the mass of the largest whale, EVER,
probably, that we know of, according to Wikipedia).
2. Express 0.00000000245 m/s in scientific notation (This is how fast your hair grows).
3. Express 1500×108 m in scientific notation (This is one Astronomical Unit).
4. Express 0.00116×10-2 days in scientific notation (Hey, that’s one second!).
5. Express 9,182,631,770 in scientific notation (This is the number of times a Cs atom
oscillates PER SECOND in an atomic clock. Try to blink that fast. I bet you can’t even
get half that many. I barely can).
6. Express 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000569 kg in scientific notation (This
is about the mass of a neutrino).