A sociologist is studying the number of years of education of students whose mothers have bachelor's degrees or higher. The data is normally distributed with a population mean of 14.5 years and a population standard deviation of 2.5 years. If a sample of 55 students is selected at random from the population, select the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution below. a. σi= 0.05 years
b. σi= 2.5 years
c. σi= 0.34 years
d. µ= 14.5 years

the largest number of the four options is 1.8 x 10-2

you have it in scientific notation.

1.80 x 10-6   = 0.00000180

1.80 x 10-4   = 0.000180 (bigger, or "less small", than the former one)

so

1.8 x 10-2       = 0.0180. as you see. the "less small", or the biggest one of them all.

as you have negative exponent, it means you are dividing 1.8 by 100 (i.e. moving the dot towards left, two times).

if you had positive exponent for the scientific notation, power of tenths, you would be multiplying times 100 (moving the dot towards right) as below:

1.8 x (10)2 = 180

so. if you have negative exponent in scientific notation, move the dot toward left. if it is positive, toward right as many times the exponent tells you.