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Post a real life situation in which scientific notation is used. You should write the number in both standard form and scientific notation.
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- 4 years ago
Suppose for example you wanted to figure out how many drops of water were in a river 12 km long, 270 m wide, and 38 m deep (assuming one drop is one milliliter). It's much more compact and meaningful to write the answer as roughly (IMAGE) than it is to write 123120000000000.
