In the year 2000,approximately 169,000,000 personal cmputers were used in the US. What is this number expressed in scientific notation?

I moved the decimal point 8 times to the left so
My answer I got was 1.69x 10to the 8th.
Is this correct
Thanks

that is correct

normally written as

1.69*10^8 or 1.69E8

Yes, your answer is correct. When converting a number to scientific notation, you want to express it as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of 10. By moving the decimal point 8 places to the left from 169,000,000, you obtain 1.69. Therefore, the number 169,000,000 in scientific notation is 1.69 x 10^8.