Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Approach, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Engineering with Pearson eText - Access Card Package (4th Edition)
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Chapter 5, Problem 8ICA
Complete the table to express each of the following values in standard, scientific, and engineering notation.
| Standard | Scientific | Engineering |
| 25,760,000 | ||
| 1.25×10−2 | ||
| 349.6×103 | ||
| 0.0000005140 | ||
| 3.92×109 | ||
| 38.7×10−9 |
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