Please show this number in scientific notation.

.00000698

Thank you.

moving the decimal point 6 places to the right, we get

6.98 * 10^-6

To show the number .00000698 in scientific notation, follow these steps:

1. Count the number of decimal places to determine the power of 10.
- In this case, there are 5 zeros after the decimal point, so the power of 10 is -5.

2. Rewrite the number by moving the decimal point to the right, just after the first non-zero digit.
- In this case, the first non-zero digit is 6, so the rewritten number is 6.98.

3. Express the rewritten number as a decimal multiplied by a power of 10.
- In this case, the rewritten number is 6.98, and the power of 10 is -5.

Putting it all together, the number .00000698 in scientific notation is written as 6.98 × 10^-5.