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Scientific Notation Unit Test

This document contains a 20 question multiple choice scientific notation test. The test covers converting numbers between standard form and scientific notation, performing basic arithmetic operations with numbers in scientific notation, and identifying properties of scientific notation like exponent values and coefficient ranges. Students are asked to choose the best answer and mark their responses on a scantron sheet.

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Scientific Notation Unit Test

This document contains a 20 question multiple choice scientific notation test. The test covers converting numbers between standard form and scientific notation, performing basic arithmetic operations with numbers in scientific notation, and identifying properties of scientific notation like exponent values and coefficient ranges. Students are asked to choose the best answer and mark their responses on a scantron sheet.

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Name:____________________________________________Period:_____ Date:_________________________________

Scientific Notation Test

This is the multiple-choice section of your test. It is worth 100 points. Read each question
thoroughly. Choose the best answer. Answer by filling in the correct bubble on a scan-tron
sheet.

1. Write 6.37e-2 in standard form. 6. 3 x 104 + 2.5 x 105 =

A. .00637 A. .5 x 105
B. .0637 B. 2.8 x 105
C. 637 C. 3.25 x 105
D. 63700 D. 5.5 x 109

2. Which is the best example of a 7. What is 4.01 x 100 written in


number written in scientific standard form?
notation?
A. 0.401
A. .5 x 105 B. 4.001
B. .1254 C. 4.01
C. 5.367 x 10-3 D. 40.1
D. 12.5 x 102
8. What is 0.000058 written in
3. 5 x 104 ÷ 2.5 x 102 = scientific notation?

A. 2 x 102 A. 5.8 x 10-6


B. 12.5 x 102 B. 5.8 x 10-5
C. .5 x 106 C. 5.8 x 105
D. 5 x 106 D. 5.8 x 106

4. 2.1 x 10-3 x 2 x 102 = 9. What is 6.92 x 10-3 written in


standard form?
A. 4.2 x 10-6
B. 4.2 x 10-5 A. 0.000692
C. 4.2 x 10-1 B. 0.00692
D. 4.2 x 101 C. 0.0692
D. 0.692
5. 2.5 x 104 – 1.5 x 103 =

A. 1 x 101
B. 1 x 107
C. 2.35 x 104
D. 2.35 x 107
Name:____________________________________________Period:_____ Date:_________________________________

Scientific Notation Test

This is the multiple-choice section of your test. It is worth 100 points. Read each question
thoroughly. Choose the best answer. Answer by filling in the correct bubble on a scan-tron
sheet.

10. The length of the Amazon River in 13. California has approximately
South America is 6, 400 4 x 107 people living in it. The
kilometers. What is the length population of the entire United
written in scientific notation? States is approximately 3 x 108
people. About how many times
A. 6.4 x 102 km greater is the population of the
B. 6.4 x 103 km United States than the population
C. 6.4 x 104 km of California?
D. 6.4 x 105 km
A. .75 x 1015 times
11. A virus is viewed under a B. .75 x 101 times
microscope. Its diameter is C. 7.5 times
0.0000002 meter. How would this
length be expressed in scientific 14. Which should I use to measure the
notation? length of a desk top?

A. 2 x 10-7 m A. kilometer
B. 2 x 10-6 m B. hectometer
C. 2 x 106 m C. millimeter
D. 2 x 107 m D. centimeter

12. A rectangular section of 15. The government will give each


wilderness will be set aside as a state the same amount of social
new wildlife refuge. Its security numbers. There are
dimensions are 5 x 105 meters by 5 × 109 available numbers to give
4 x 104 meters. Find the area of in total. How many will be
the land in square meters. allocated to each state?

A. 9 x 101 square meters A. 25 × 1010


B. 9 x 109 square meters B. 1 × 108
C. 2 x 1010 square meters C. 100,000,000
D. 20 x 109 square meters D. Both B and C
Name:____________________________________________Period:_____ Date:_________________________________

Scientific Notation Test

This is the multiple-choice section of your test. It is worth 100 points. Read each question
thoroughly. Choose the best answer. Answer by filling in the correct bubble on a scan-tron
sheet.

16. For which value of k is the 18. A box contains 5 x 103 paper clips.
equation below true? The mass of each paper clip in the
4,522,800,000 = 4.5228 × 10k ? box is 8 x 10-4 kilogram. What is
the combined mass of the paper
A. 5 clips in the box?
B. 8
C. 9 A. 4 kilograms
D. 10 B. 40 kilograms
C. 4 x 107 kilograms
17. Since 1993, the global average sea D. 4 x 10-7 kilograms
level has risen 3.1 × 10-3 meters
per year due to melting glaciers
and other factors. Which of the 19. Which will be the exponent of the
following units is equivalent to common factor when finding the
3.1 × 10-3 meters per year? sum of 4.15 × 10-3 and 5.28 × 106?

A. 3.1 kilometers per year A. 3


B. 3.1 centimeters per year B. 4.15
C. 3.1 decimeters per year C. 5.28
D. 3.1 millimeters per year D. 6

20. The coefficient part of a number


written in scientific notation is
between which numbers?

A. 1 and 10
B. -1 and -10
C. Both A and B

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