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11 September, 23:12

A lake in California contains about 8,500,000,000,000 gallons of water. How can this number be written in scientific notation?

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  1. 12 September, 01:42
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    Scientific notation is in the form of 1~10*10^x, so the scientific notation would be 8.5*10^12
  2. 12 September, 03:02
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    8.5x10^12

    Just count how many times needed to move the decimal place to make 8.5 then multiply by 10 ^ (number of places you needed to move)
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