How to write 5,800 million metric tons in standard form and in scientific notation?
To write 5,800 million metric tons in standard form, we need to convert it to a more concise representation.
1 million is equal to 1,000,000. Therefore, 5,800 million can be expressed as 5,800,000,000.
In scientific notation, we need to express the number in two components: a decimal number between 1 and 10 (known as the coefficient), and a power of 10 (known as the exponent).
To convert 5,800,000,000 to scientific notation, we can start by moving the decimal point to the left until we have a number between 1 and 10. In this case, we need to move the decimal point 9 places to the left:
5,800,000,000 = 5.8 × 10^9
Therefore, in scientific notation, 5,800 million metric tons is 5.8 × 10^9 metric tons.