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 Year 9 Maths

Scientific Notation - Multiplication

Scientific Notation
Lesson Goals

 Learn to multiply numbers using scientific notation

Revision
Let’s quickly remind ourselves what scientific notation
looks like:
2 3
3 × 10 2.5 × 10 1.36 × 105
= 3 × 100 = 2.5 × 1000 = 1.36 × 100 000
= 300 = 2500 = 136 000

In each case, the power of 10 tells us how many places

(including the decimal places) come after each leading digit.
Revision
And t write a number in scientific notation:

$𝟏𝟗 𝟑𝟗𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝑼𝑺 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒔 𝑫𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1.939 × 1013 1. Write out the significant figures (non-

zero) as a decimal, with the leading digit
in the one’s column.

2. Count the number of places after the

leading digit - this is the power of 10 we
multiply by.
Multiplying in Scientific Notation
Recall that multiplication is commutative, it doesn’t matter
what order we multiply numbers in. 3 × 2 = 2 × 3

In this example, we want

to multiply 𝟑. 𝟐𝟓 by
𝟔. 𝟎𝟐𝟐 × 𝟏𝟎𝟐𝟑 .

3.25 × 6.022 × 1023 1. First we’re just going to multiply the

decimal parts of the number

= 19.5715 × 1023 2. Then we make sure that our decimal part

is between 1 and 10
= 1.95715 × 1024
Normalising
The process of making the decimal a number between 1 and
10 is called normalising (don’t worry about that though!)
This is how it’s done:

19.5715 × 1023 To this

Our
So keep
decimal,
isthe
what
number
19.5715
I’m going
the
is too
same,
to do!
big.I need to
multiply by 10 as well.
Recall that when I divide a number by 10,
≠ 1.95715 × 1023
= 23 × 10But are
every these
digit
𝟏𝟐 numbers
÷moves
𝟏𝟎 into
× 𝟏𝟎 really
the = …
equal?
next
𝟏𝟐 place value
column (it becomes 10 times smaller).
= 1.95715 × 1024 This last multiple of 10 can now fit nicely
into my power of 10! Instead of multiplying
by 10 twenty-three times, I’ve multiplied by
195715
. 10… twenty-four times!

÷ 10
× 100
Scientific Notation
Evaluate each of the following:
12 7
4 × 7 × 10 34 × 5 × 10
= 28 × 1012 = 170 × 107
÷ 𝟏𝟎 × 𝟏𝟎 ÷ 𝟏𝟎𝟎 × 𝟏𝟎𝟎
= 2.8 × 1013 = 1.7 × 109
Scientific Notation
Evaluate each of the following:
12 7
0.05 × 7 × 10 0.025 × 3.8 × 10
= 0.35 × 1012 = 0.095 × 107
× 𝟏𝟎 ÷ 𝟏𝟎 × 𝟏𝟎𝟎 ÷ 𝟏𝟎𝟎
= 3.5 × 1011 = 9.5 × 105
Multiplying in Scientific Notation
Sometimes you’ll need to multiply two numbers in scientific
notation together. This is very similar, but requires use of the index
laws.

4 6
5 × 10 × 3 × 10 1. Multiply the decimal (or in this case
whole number) parts
=
= 15
15
5 ×× ×10
×310
10 4 4
4+6
× 6106
10× 10 2. Multiply the power of ten using your
÷ 𝟏𝟎 × 𝟏𝟎 first index law
= 1.5 × 1011 3. Normalise
Make a word
Each of the letters of the alphabet are given a number corresponding to
their order as follows:
Make a five letter
word such that the
numbers add up to 50