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 idea behind scientific notation is to write all numbers as decimal numbers times multiples of ten. and on and on up to some multiple of as large of a power of ten as needed. And, as we found earlier, all of these powers of 10 can also be written using exponents.