How do you express 2650000 in scientific notation?

1 Answer
Mar 15, 2018

The decimal point is (invisibly) to the right of the final 0. Leapfrog it from there left, counting the jumps, until it is to the right of the leftmost number (2). There are 6 jumps, so we write: 2.65xx10^6 (no need to include the trailing zeroes).