express the number 427 thousand in scientific notation
Mathematics · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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In order to express 427000 into scientific notation, we count the number of, including the non zeros digit before the last term. This will be used as the degree for the scientific notation.
427000 has 5 units excluding the last term, therefore the degree will be 5.
427000 will be written as,
Scientific Notation: 4.27 x 10^5