Numbers to Standard Form

Numbers to Standard Form
Introduction

Scientific notation is a convenient way to write very large or very small numbers. Sometimes, however, we need to convert these numbers back to standard form, which is the ordi...

Emily sees in her math textbook that the mass of an airplane is written in scientific notation as 7.9 × 10⁴ kg.

She also sees the mass of a coin written in scientific notation as 3.22 × 10⁻² kg.

Emily wants to convert these numbers to standard form, which means writing them in their usual decimal form instead of using exponents, so...