This math skill teaches how to calculate powers of ten for use in scientific notation, highlighting a trick that multiplying by ten adds a zero to the previous number.
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Calculate powers of ten for scientific notation
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Let's calculate ten to the power of 4
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It would be 10 times 10 times 10 times 10, which is 10,000, but there's a useful trick.
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Notice that every time we multiply by 10 we add a zero, so ten to the power of 4 is 1 with 4 zeros, which is 10 thousand