Change the number to standard form. The sun is about 1 × 108 meters from earth.

Answer 1

HI Tina,

"Change the number to standard form. The sun is about 1 × 108 meters from earth."

So Change 1x 10⁸ into standard form.

The current form of your distance is scientific notation.

Standard form would be to write the number out without an exponent.

So 1 x 10⁸ Means that you would move the decimal 8 spaces to the right (when your exponent is positive, you go right, when you exponent is negative, you go left)

1_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . Then the spaces that you moved to the right get filled with zeros

1 0 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 This is 1x10⁸ in standard form.

Hope this helps.

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