Question

WRITING NUMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION

Write the number in scientific notation.

$0.000000084$

Answer 1

Moving the decimal eight places to the right. As the number is between $1$ and $10$, so exponent is negative.

$0.000000084=8.4\times {10}^{-8}$

Hence, the number in scientific notation is $8.4\times {10}^{-8}$