To prevent the transmission of MRSA, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers can do the following things: 1  Clean their hands with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand rub before and after touching the patient or the patientâs environment.
Scientific notation (also referred to as scientific form, standard form or standard index form) is a way of expressing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form. It is commonly used by scientists, mathematicians and engineers, in part because it can simplify certain arithmetic operations.
To see an exponent thatâs negative, write .00000031 in scientific notation. 1  Move the decimal place to the right to create a new number from 1 up to 10. 2  Determine the exponent, which is the number of times you moved the decimal. 3  Put the number in the correct form for scientific notation.