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.
The number 123000000 in scientific notation is written as: 1.23 x 108 The first number 1.23 is called the coefficient. It is always a single digit followed by a decimal point and then the rest, but usually only two digits. The second number is called the base and in scientific notation must always be 10.