While at a beach, Melody takes a sip out of a coconut for some fresh coconut milk. Melody drinks 0.095 L of coconut milk. Write the amount of liters in scientific notation.
To write the amount of liters in scientific notation, we need to convert 0.095 L to a number between 1 and 10 (the coefficient) multiplied by a power of 10 (the exponent).
To do so, we count the number of decimal places until we have a number between 1 and 10. In this case, we have 2 decimal places.
Therefore, we can express 0.095 as 9.5 × 10^(-2) in scientific notation.
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I will be happy to check your work.
you want 0.095 to be 9.5x10^___
how many places to the right did you shift the decimal point?