Write 600000 in scientific notation

Step by step

The question

Question: write 600000 in scientific notation.

1 What it looks like

Scientific notation is a number from 1 to under 10, times a power of 10.

2 Move the point

Moving the point 5 to the left made the number 100000 times smaller.

To make it the same again, we times by 100000.

That is 10⁵.

So 600000 is 6.00000 × 10⁵.

Zeros at the end, after the point, can go: 6.00000 is 6.

So we get 6 × 10⁵.

3 Check

Let's check: times 100000 moves the point 5 back to the right.

We get 600000 again!

Let's look back.

First: what it looks like.

Then: move the point.

Last: check.