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Author Question: Express 5.6 10-2 in milli, basic units, and micro. A) 5600 milli, 56, 560 B) 5.6 milli, 0.056, ... (Read 129 times)

Kthamas

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on: Jul 28, 2018
Express 5.6  10-2 in milli, basic units, and micro.
 
  A) 5600 milli, 56, 560 B) 5.6 milli, 0.056, 56000 micro
  C) 560 milli, 5.600, 5600 micro D) 56 milli, 0.056, 56000 micro

Question 2

Why are powers of 10 used to express numeric values in scientific and engineering work?
 
  What will be an ideal response?


GCabra

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Reply #1 on: Jul 28, 2018
Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

To reduce the difficulty of writing very large or very small numbers.


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