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EXTENDED PRACTICE
SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
1. Tina says that 3.4 × 105 is greater than 8.25 × 104. Is she correct? Justify your answer.

2. Brian thinks that 1.75 × 10−3 is less than 1.25 × 10−2. Is he correct? Justify your answer.

3. The average distance between Earth and the Sun is approximately 1.5 × 108 kilometers. Write this distance
in standard form.

4. The distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies is approximately 2,540,000 light-years. Write
this distance in scientific notation.

5. A typical feather weighs around 0.0082 gram. Express this weight in scientific notation.

6. Compare each pair of numbers. Show your work.

a. How much greater is 9.8 × 104 than 6.2 × 10−3?

b. How many times greater is 9 × 10100 than 3 × 1040?

7. Stars A, B, and C lie on a straight line. Star A and star B are 8 × 104 light years apart. Star B and star C are
6 × 105 light years apart. How far apart are star A and star C? Show your work.

8. How much longer is the distance 6 × 104 meters than the distance 7.5 × 102 meters?

9. Jamie says that the product (2 × 1099) × (8 × 101) has an exponent of 100 when the answer is written in
scientific notation. Is Jamie correct? Explain.

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