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GG 620 Scientific-Notation Practice2

1. The document provides 9 practice problems for working with scientific notation. The problems involve comparing values, converting between standard and scientific notation, performing calculations, and identifying whether statements about scientific notation are correct or not.

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GG 620 Scientific-Notation Practice2

1. The document provides 9 practice problems for working with scientific notation. The problems involve comparing values, converting between standard and scientific notation, performing calculations, and identifying whether statements about scientific notation are correct or not.

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Name: ___________________________ Date: ___________________________

EXTENDED PRACTICE
SCIENTIFIC NOTATION
1. Tina says that 3.4 × 105 is greater than 8.25 × 104. Is she correct? Justify your answer.

2. Brian thinks that 1.75 × 10−3 is less than 1.25 × 10−2. Is he correct? Justify your answer.

3. The average distance between Earth and the Sun is approximately 1.5 × 108 kilometers. Write this distance
in standard form.

4. The distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies is approximately 2,540,000 light-years. Write
this distance in scientific notation.

5. A typical feather weighs around 0.0082 gram. Express this weight in scientific notation.

6. Compare each pair of numbers. Show your work.


a. How much greater is 9.8 × 104 than 6.2 × 10−3?

b. How many times greater is 9 × 10100 than 3 × 1040?

7. Stars A, B, and C lie on a straight line. Star A and star B are 8 × 104 light years apart. Star B and star C are
6 × 105 light years apart. How far apart are star A and star C? Show your work.

8. How much longer is the distance 6 × 104 meters than the distance 7.5 × 102 meters?

9. Jamie says that the product (2 × 1099) × (8 × 101) has an exponent of 100 when the answer is written in
scientific notation. Is Jamie correct? Explain.

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