What are the steps to convert a number from standard notation to scientific notation?

Consider a big number 3,400,000. To convert this number into scientific notation:

Place a decimal by counting the steps to the left until the coefficient of the number is between 1 and 9.

Count the number of steps moved. This will be the power of the base 10.

In this case, the coefficient is 3.4 and the 6 steps are moved.

Multiply the coefficient by 106,

Therefore, the answer is 3. 4 x 10 6

Step-by-step explanation:

for this case we must apply distributive property to the following expression:

the distributive property states that:

then, when applying the property we have to multiply the -2 for each term within the parenthesis: