Concept explainers
Interpretation: The ordinary decimal form of given number
Concept introduction: Scientific notation is quantitative knowledge which is called a calculation and a number and unit exist. Too big or too small numbers are easily represented by using scientific notation.
Answer to Problem 2A
The given number is expressed as 4512 in ordinary decimal notation
Explanation of Solution
A number can be written in scientific form as follows:
Here n is exponent or power of 10. This can be positive or negative depending whether the number is less than 0 or greater than 0.
Given a number is
Scientific notation consists of 4.512 coefficients that is multiplied by 10 raises to an exponent 3.
To convert a real number start with base and multiply by 3 ten is as follows:
Thus ordinary decimal notation is expressed as 4512.
Thus, the given number is expressed as 4512 in ordinary decimal notation
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