The area of Greenland is 840,000 square miles. What is this number in scientific notation?
Decimal point so that the number is between 1 and 10
Count the digits from there to the end.
840000 = 8.4 x `10^5`
if counting to the left, use negative powers.
0.00034 = 3.4 x `10^-4`
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