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.
General Formula of Scientific Notation. The general from of a number in scientific notation is: a Ã10n where 1 â¤ a â¤ 10 and n is an integer. In other words the number that we'll call a is is multiplied by 10, raised to some exponent n. This number a must be no smaller than 1 and no larger than 10.