Estimating Very Large Quantities
Use scientific notation to estimate large quantities such as populations, distances in space, and national budgets.

Use scientific notation to estimate large quantities such as populations, distances in space, and national budgets.
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Use scientific notation to compare quantities, determine how many times larger one quantity is than another, and estimate very large and very small real-world measurements.
Use numbers expressed in the form of a single digit times an integer power of 10 to estimate very large or very small quantities, and to express how many times as much one is than the other. For example, estimate the population of the United States as 3 times 108 and the population of the world as 7 times 109, and determine that the world population is more than 20 times larger.