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Question

Here is Texas' approximate area in square miles: 2.618×105

How can you express the area of Texas in standard notation? Show your work or explain your thinking.

Answer 1

I assume you mean 10^5 which means you are multiplying by 10 five times. every time you multiply by 10 you move the decimal one digit to the right and when you run out of digits then just add zeros so 2.618 x!0^5 becomes 261800