Question

WRITING NUMBERS IN SCIENTIFIC NOTATION

Write the number in scientific notation.

$0.000012001$

Answer 1

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

$0.000012001=1.2001\times {10}^{-5}$

Hence, the number in scientific notation is $1.2001\times {10}^{-5}$.