Writing and Interpreting Numbers in Standard Form Answers
Your Turn
1. Identify whether each of the following numbers is written in standard form. If a number is
not written in standard form, explain why.
a. 2 × 100.5
Not in standard form since the power is not a whole number.
b. 10 × 104
Not in standard form since the first number is 10 (it needs to be less than 10).
c. 3 × 10-15
In standard form.
d. 0.9 × 10-2
Not in standard form since the first number is less than 1.
e. 4.721431709 × 10-3
In standard form.
2. Write each number in standard form:
a. 7000 d. 38 000 g. 0.00981
3 4 -3
7 × 10 3.8 × 10 9.81 × 10
b. 900 000 e. 0.002 h. 0.07024
5 -3 -2
9 × 10 2 × 10 7.024 × 10
c. 120 f. 0.000045 i. 98
2 -5 1
1.2 × 10 4.5 × 10 9.8 × 10
3. Write each number in ordinary form:
a. 4 × 103 d. 9.01 × 104 g. 1.41 × 10-7
4000 90 100 0.000000141
b. 2 × 107 e. 7 × 10-2
20 000 000 0.07
c. 3.1 × 102 f. 2.9 × 10-4
310 0.00029
Challenge:
These numbers are not in standard form. Convert each one to standard form.
a. 31 × 104 b. 0.9 × 10-3
5 -4
3.1 × 10 9 × 10