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Standard form is commonly used for numbers that are very large
or very small although any number can easily be written in this
form. Standard form makes use of the laws of indices but
numbers are only expressed in one base, base 10.
Place the decimal point after the first non-zero digit then
multiply or divide it by a power of 10 to give the same value.
Examples: Exp/EE?
= 3.78 x 1014
= 1.3 x 1011
Standard Form without a Calculator
6.754 x 1017
4.371 x 1014
Writing very large/small numbers in standard form.
4.26 x 10-15
5.83 x 10-11
The distance between the Earth and
Moon is approximately 245 000 miles.
Write this distance in standard form.
2.45 x 105
93 000 000
9.3 x 107
The mass of the Earth is approximately
6 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 kg.
Write this number in standard form.
6.0 x 1024
The mass of Jupiter is approximately
2 390 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 kg. Write
this number in standard form.
2.39 x 1027
3.95 x 10-22
1.67 x 10-24
Taking the distance to the moon is 2.45 x 105 miles and the average
speed of a space ship as 5.0 x 103 mph, find the time taken for it to
travel to the moon. Write your answer in decimal form.
D D 245 000
S T 49 hours
T S 5 000
Writing Answers in Decimal Form (Non-calculator)