Identify Form of Scientific Notation: Identify the basic form of scientific notation.Scientific notation is a way of expressing numbers that are too large or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form. It is typically written in the form of a×10n, where 1≤a<10 and n is an integer.
Determine Coefficient Placement: Determine the coefficient a by placing the decimal point after the first non-zero digit.For the number 100,000, the first non-zero digit is 1. We place the decimal after the 1, which gives us 1.00000.
Write in Scientific Notation: Write the number in scientific notation using the coefficient from Step 2 and the exponent from Step 3.The scientific notation of 100,000 is 1.00000×105. However, since the zeros after the decimal are not significant, we can simplify this to 1×105.
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