Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu. Astronomers have estimated that our cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies. This number can be expressed in scientific notation as
1. 5E-10
2. 5E10
3. 5E-9
4. 5E9

Second option: 5E 10 = 5*10^(10) galaxies.

Step-by-step explanation:

The exponential notation is used as:

AE N

This is equal to:

A*10^(N)

And we need to add N zeros to the right of A.

While if we had:

AE - N

A*10^(-N)

We need to add N - 1 zeros at the left of A.

Now we have the number:

50,000,000,000

Let's count the number of zeros at the right of the 5, we have 10 zeros.

Then we would write this as:

5*10^(10)

OR

5E 10

Then the correct option is the second one.

c

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