Chemistry: An Introduction to General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry (12th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0321908449
ISBN 13: 978-0-32190-844-5

Chapter 1 - Section 1.4 - Key Math Skills for Chemistry - Additional Questions and Problems - Page 21: 1.47a

Answer

$1.2\times10^{5}$

Work Step by Step

The zeros to the right of the 2 are insignificant, therefore we don't want them in the final answer. You must still show the value of the whole number so to do that, we will take the significant numbers (1 and 2) and show them as 1.2 and represent the zeros as $\times10^5$ because we moved the decimal to the left 5 places.
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