If you assume there are three significant figures in the number, would 72,000 = 7.20 x 10^2 or 7.20 x 10^4? The significant numbers should be the "7,20" right?
If you write the following in standard, nonexponential form would 3.86 x 10^-6 = 0.00000386?
If you write that same number in common decimal form, is it the same? If so, why would it be specified to write them in "common decimal" instead of "standard, nonexponential" form?
Man, I thought I understood this stuff when I left class, haha...
2007-08-23
10:07:02
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