CHEM 24112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Linoleum, Scientific Notation, Hertz
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Homework 2.1: Scientific Notation, Units and Measurement
1. Will the exponent of the following numbers be positive or negative when the numbers are written
in scientific notation?
a. 4598 b. 0.002259 c. 93,000,000 d. 0.552
2. Rewrite each of the following as an “ordinary” decimal number.
a. 4.31 x 10-2 b. 9.54 x 103
c. 3.79 x 10-5 d. 7.19 x 102
3. Express each of the following numbers in standard scientific notation.
a. 0.005219 b. 93,000,000
c. 5219 d. 72.41 x 10-2
e. 6,199,291 f. 0.007241 x 10-5
g. 0.1973 h. 1.00
4. For each of the following descriptions, identify the power of 10 being indicated by a prefix in the
measurement.
a. For my lunch, I had a cheeseburger that contained 1/8 of a kilogram of beef.
b. The sign on the highway I just passed said “Toronto 50 kilometers”.
c. The hard drive on my new computer has a storage capacity of 40 gigabytes.
d. My favorite radio station broadcasts at 93.7 megahertz on the FM dial.
e. The liquid medication I have to give my dog says it contains 2 milligrams of active ingredient per
cubic centimeter.
f. I just won the lottery for ‘megabucks’!
5. What power of 10 corresponds to each of the following metric system prefixes?
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