Scientific Notation: Multiplication and Division

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    Explains how to multiply and divide numbers that are written in scientific notation.

Komentáře • 619

  • @JessicaLangston870
    @JessicaLangston870 Před 2 lety +86

    This video made more sense than 6 chapters in my chemistry book. I literally went month's without understanding how to multiply and divide scientific notation. THANK YOU.

  • @orionthehunter8339
    @orionthehunter8339 Před 6 lety +341

    All the dislikes are from those Math teachers that suck at explaining things

  • @Grannyrat1
    @Grannyrat1 Před 6 lety +55

    PLEASE CONTINUE MAKING VIDS LIKE THIS! You are literally saving me in chemistry. The teacher doesn’t explain ANYTHING!!!!

  • @aspirate
    @aspirate Před 8 lety +259

    Why isn't my math teacher this clear...?

    • @darnellmckee9604
      @darnellmckee9604 Před 8 lety +13

      +WastingFilm because you're chemistry teacher should be teaching you this

    • @aspirate
      @aspirate Před 8 lety +3

      Good point. xD

    • @xp_torq116
      @xp_torq116 Před 8 lety +8

      +WastingFilm yeah I'm learning this in math and my teacher is so dumb compared to him

    • @jalonconway7816
      @jalonconway7816 Před 6 lety

      SPENCERDC this is chemistry for me

    • @lae.mp6772
      @lae.mp6772 Před 6 lety

      That is so true this is so in depth

  • @juju99449
    @juju99449 Před 4 lety +51

    dang this is way better than khan academy
    and it was posted literally 9 years ago.. this dude is a genius

  • @luannsilva6945
    @luannsilva6945 Před 8 lety +1

    I have been teaching 8th grade math for 5 years now and your videos are by far the best resource I've seen for breaking down what scientific notation is, how to write numbers in scientific notation, and how to connect knowledge of exponent laws to perform operations with scientific notation. Keep the videos coming!

  • @JoseCamacho_Tujaycee_2JC
    @JoseCamacho_Tujaycee_2JC Před 10 lety +107

    fire my teacher and replace her with that smart guy.

  • @Ashley694ful
    @Ashley694ful Před 9 lety +185

    THANK U SO MUCH MY CHEMISTRY TEACHER IS SO BAD AT EXPLAINING STUFF

  • @cynthiadrott-puett1762
    @cynthiadrott-puett1762 Před 8 měsíci

    I am an old person and trying to help my grandchild with schoolwork. Math was never my best or anywhere near best subject. We have watched multiple videos how to do this and there always seemed to be a hidden question that wasn't answered and we would get more confused. Your video broke this down to an absolutely easily understood concept. We now know how to do the exponents including the negative ones the correct way and WHY the exponents were added or subtracted instead of multiplied or divided, Thank you so much, We subscribed. We will definitely be looking at your videos first, THANK YOU.

  • @im2awesome2die
    @im2awesome2die Před 9 lety

    I used to watch your videos two years ago when I was in Chemistry. Now I take Environmental Science and I had to review over scientific notation. This is a nice throwback to the old days of watching you. Thanks for the help once again :)

  • @Tigerwolf102onYoutube
    @Tigerwolf102onYoutube Před 7 lety +76

    this makes SOOOOOOOOOOOOO much more sense than khanacademy! Thank you so much!

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    @rubyranjan5767 Před 6 lety +1

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    @ashleydavis2355 Před 8 lety +1

    Thank you so much! You just taught me in 5 minutes what I spent years not understanding from any of my professors! And scrolling through your other videos, I can tell that I'm going to be using your channel quite a bit as I do my Chemistry homework this semester.

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    @stephaniejohnson6519 Před 2 lety +1

    No words to fully express how freaking amazing you are! 24 years without chemistry and thanks to you, I understand what I’m doing!!!!

  • @PublicSpeaking202
    @PublicSpeaking202 Před 8 lety +4

    This is so sad that so many professors do not know how to break down Chemistry like this guy. Tyler DeWitt you ROCK!

  • @Max-el7zd
    @Max-el7zd Před 3 lety

    You are literally a GOD of explaining things. Your abilities to make everything make sense is crazy.

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    @dhanedelapena21 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you very much! You help me survive my online class on General Chemistry, it's my fault because I slept during the class and turned off the camera, THANKS A LOT!

  • @deltaforce4477
    @deltaforce4477 Před rokem

    Our CZcams educators like this guy should get paid for making these simple videos, they know how to simplify our math stuff than our teachers do in most math classes these days.

  • @ezmah2283
    @ezmah2283 Před 3 lety +1

    this guy explained it better in a minute and twenty seconds better than my math teacher could in an entire block.

  • @smooveoner8823
    @smooveoner8823 Před 9 lety +4

    Im having a hard time with these types of problems in school. I really needed this. Thank You

  • @abbyspark3937
    @abbyspark3937 Před 10 lety +33

    Wow thank you SOOOOOO much!!!!! I needed help with this and this has proved to be very useful and simple than I thought :D Now I get it and can explain it to my friend or send her the link :D THANK THANK YOU!!!!

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    @racheldeguzman8872 Před 10 lety +1

    These videos help me so much! I can understand the concepts more clearly than from just reading it in my textbook. Thanks so much!

  • @lavendelelv
    @lavendelelv Před 4 lety +9

    Thank you!! I missed class i was sick! but you caught me up! :) thanks again ~~

  • @desireelawrence4353
    @desireelawrence4353 Před 11 lety

    I appreciate all of the videos I've watched of your lessons, so far. Reading how to do this kind of thing in a Chemistry textbook is difficult for me. I learn much better by observing, step by step, how each problem should be solved. Thank you! You are a blessing for Chemistry students, such as myself!

  • @tdewitt451
    @tdewitt451  Před 14 lety +2

    @RedWOLF4Life96 if you're multiplying, you always ADD the exponents on 10. if you're dividing, you always SUBTRACT the exponents. it doesn't matter if the exponents are negative or positive: you know how to add or subtract negative numbers, right?

  • @testaccount8344
    @testaccount8344 Před 9 lety

    Thank you so much Tyler DeWitt! This is mind-blowingly awesome when I already understood every bit of it. Please keep making more videos, because you have a great potential to be a great ChemTeacher on CZcams. Once again, thank you so much. Salute ! :D

  • @tdewitt451
    @tdewitt451  Před 13 lety +1

    @rafaeldelaflor i think the video you want is called "scientific notation and significant figures (1.7)" the video called "scientific notation and significant zeros (1.8)" may also be helpful. if those videos don't help you, send me a message with some examples of the type of problems that you would like me to explain.

  • @tdewitt451
    @tdewitt451  Před 13 lety

    @CKYAlliance32 do it from left to right. first do the multiplication, then take the answer to that and do the division. since the mantissas are 8.2, 9, and 2, your final answer should have only one significant figure. does that make sense?

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    @tyecleveland6451 Před 6 lety

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    @AMAN_GAMER728 Před rokem +1

    Watching this video is perhaps one of most important things I did for preparation for my exams.

  • @Olliedanger
    @Olliedanger Před 6 lety

    THANK YOU!!! You are a math master, praise your brilliant mind! Thanks for taking time out of your life to thoroughly explain so many complex math processes!

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    @IsaiahRoe Před 12 lety

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    @abhinoorsingh3879 Před 4 lety +3

    Your amazing!! My teacher couldn’t even teach me this and when I watched this video I understood. Thx😃

  • @muffiner7970
    @muffiner7970 Před 10 lety +1

    My math teacher is so confusing and this helped me so so so much. Thank you. This is a lot easier than I thought it was

  • @izabella_odessa5440
    @izabella_odessa5440 Před 7 lety

    you're my hero THANK YOU. I couldn't understand this even after my teacher tried to explain many times. Now I understand

  • @tdewitt451
    @tdewitt451  Před 11 lety +4

    i have a lot of videos on scientific notation with negative exponents. i talk about them in this video. but you probably want to start with my video called "scientific notation introduction," and then you can watch "scientific notation practice problems," and then "fixing incorrect scientific notation."

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    @cascitypiersall3552 Před 4 lety

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  • @gratitude7397
    @gratitude7397 Před 7 lety

    Thank you sooo much Tyler. I watch these with my 8th grade son who struggles in Math. These are perfect..

  • @jameslekejr.4036
    @jameslekejr.4036 Před 5 lety +14

    Hey Tyler, this last division problem has me confused. You said when we move the decimal to the left the exponent goes down. so shouldn't the right S N answer be 2.67x10 to negative 2?

    • @shaiofthehighlands5792
      @shaiofthehighlands5792 Před 5 lety +7

      When you move it to the right, the power of 10 becomes smaller, it means you move one digit away from the decimal. That is also the same as -2-1=-4 based from the rules of integers. That's why the power of 10 became -4. I hope that helped.

    • @LuffyFilmZz
      @LuffyFilmZz Před 3 lety +1

      @@shaiofthehighlands5792 the smaller the number, the bigger the negative number
      exaple -3 if you want it smaller then its -4

    • @historicalnow9241
      @historicalnow9241 Před 3 lety

      I had the same problem too, suddenly I remembered about the bigger the negative number, the smaller the value.

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    @lavanyawasnik8719 Před 5 měsíci

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  • @Saranghae197
    @Saranghae197 Před 11 lety +1

    Wow, this taught me more than a whole hour of class did. Thank you very much.

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    @deveanaustin7252 Před 5 lety +1

    Thank you so much I recently failed my math test on this and your video helped me realize where I went wrong so I can do better on the retake

  • @kevinreilly3061
    @kevinreilly3061 Před 8 lety

    I watched all of your scientific notation videos they were all really helpful im going to ace my test tomorrow

  • @Ratone6
    @Ratone6 Před 11 lety +1

    You explained that very well, and on top of that, I hope to get all of these types of problems on my test tomorrow. Thank You!

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    @trog6782 Před 3 lety

    You saved me, thanks man!!
    My teacher just sped through it without explaining it much.

  • @BigLoNasty
    @BigLoNasty Před 13 lety

    Very thankful, I'm just now learning how to do this in science class. I was stumped on my homework, I watched this video and now I understand it way better. Thanks again.

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    @rondiescobar9608 Před 6 lety

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    @rhondagump1092 Před 2 lety

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  • @ziravo8877
    @ziravo8877 Před 5 lety +1

    On my calc I got 7.5896? Instead of 7.59. Am I supposed to do something or is either answer right? I’m not sure

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    @angwill3852 Před 11 lety

    Thank you! You made this so much easier than the way my professor was teaching it. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

  • @mirah2k
    @mirah2k Před 9 lety

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    @hocXxestXxrerum Před 12 lety

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  • @melodyverde1955
    @melodyverde1955 Před 4 lety +1

    on question #2 wouldn't it be 3.05? instead of 3.04 because there is three sig figs so it moves 3 decimal places?

  • @sobordinates
    @sobordinates Před 5 lety +3

    Very good explanation. Better than Khan Academy's.

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    @H4v0kksh0tgunMan Před 12 lety

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    @akhila._5262 Před 2 lety

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    @user-lb4xc8xu5g Před 5 lety

    I'm learning this in math and it's the exponents that always get me! thank you so much for making it clear!

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    @thomasvalenzuela720 Před 10 lety +3

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    @Chillbruh7770 Před 10 lety +1

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    @CC-fq8bn Před 8 lety

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    @Retrokidd003 Před rokem

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    @StreamerHouse Před 8 lety +10

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    @epitomeofhappiness14 Před 11 lety

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    @shandanaiftikhar1960 Před 7 lety +2

    Thank you so much! It is because of you that I understand chemistry now since my teacher is too dumb and lazy to explain things in detail.

  • @souflotv
    @souflotv Před 11 lety +5

    when you multiplied 2.12 by 3.58 what did you do to get 7.59 ? im asking because when i multiplied my answer i got was 7.5896 so i was wondering, did you do some rounding off some where ? thanks

    • @nicoleb4984
      @nicoleb4984 Před 3 lety +5

      He said he rounded them to the first three numbers. So he rounded 9 and then rounded 8, which got him 7.59 (i know its been 7 years since you made this comment but just putting it out there for other people to know)

    • @willrupee
      @willrupee Před 3 lety +2

      Damn bro ive seen your vids before 😳

    • @queengee5282
      @queengee5282 Před 3 lety

      Yes he rounded up to have 2 decimal places

    • @arihantjain6646
      @arihantjain6646 Před 2 lety

      when ur 3rd digit like in 7.5896 , then 8 is rounded up to 9 cuz it was greater than 5 . If it was 3 or 4 or something , it wouldve been 7 only i think , Kick me if im wrong and also feels good to answer a 8 year old question

  • @horseridingbuckaroo
    @horseridingbuckaroo Před 14 lety

    thanks soooo much! I have a chem test tomorrow and this totally helped me!

  • @dearmistersoandso
    @dearmistersoandso Před 6 lety +1

    Exactly what I needed. Fantastic. So clear!

  • @jackledington3123
    @jackledington3123 Před 4 lety

    2.12 x 3.58 = 7.59 How did you get that what did you add/mutiply to get that asnwer you lost me on that part and i have no idea what numbers you added or mutiplied to come out with that answer

  • @sugarhoneyicedtea123
    @sugarhoneyicedtea123 Před 14 lety

    Thank you so so much for these videos! They are SUCH a huge help!

  • @corinneandallo1998
    @corinneandallo1998 Před 7 lety

    Wow thank you for the clear instructions. You made it easy for me to understand!!

  • @rafaeldelaflor
    @rafaeldelaflor Před 13 lety

    Thanks for being so motivated. I wish you would make a focus video on rounding the resulting figures with scientific notation. From scientific notation to scientific notation and from figures to scientific notation with rounding.

  • @tab4691
    @tab4691 Před 4 lety +1

    You just did in 5:30 minutes what my teacher couldn’t in 1:30 hours

  • @gaytrimaurya7092
    @gaytrimaurya7092 Před 4 lety

    I am Indian ...... Thank u very so muchh sir really ur vedioes r very helpfull first time completely clear my all doubt s from this topic

  • @theodoreorshane7475
    @theodoreorshane7475 Před 7 lety +1

    is it possible to multiply the one who has a negative exponent and a positive exponent ?

  • @daxfamor567
    @daxfamor567 Před rokem

    Thanks for explaining this man! It really helped me out

  • @NotOfHereMinistries
    @NotOfHereMinistries Před 11 lety

    Awesome, this just helped me out review and do part of my AP Chemistry Summer assignment, thanks and God bless!

  • @Boppin194
    @Boppin194 Před 6 lety

    I honestly can't believe i learnt that in 5 mins where in my class i had to legit take 1 hour to "learn" but actually not learning how to do it, PLEASE BE MY TEACHER!

  • @tdewitt451
    @tdewitt451  Před 11 lety

    Hey everyone, I'm here to help. If you have any questions or just want to learn more, click on the link in the description above. It'll take you to a page where you can ask me questions.

  • @katherinebellendir1681

    Thank you so much, I was scared I was going to fail my science test because of these kind of problems. I understand how to do them now!

  • @katherinerodriguez4982
    @katherinerodriguez4982 Před 8 lety +1

    thank you so much !! only if every teacher was like you ..

  • @dianegerson9025
    @dianegerson9025 Před 5 lety

    Very clearly explained. Well done!

  • @eesch28
    @eesch28 Před 10 lety +4

    Third and last video These are really useful!

  • @Deadassy0
    @Deadassy0 Před 10 lety +1

    Why couldn't my professor make it this easy?! Thanks you just saved me!! :)