charles is reading about computers. he learns that a computer processor can perform one command in approximately 0.000000016 nanoseconds. what is this number expressed in scientific notation? there are multiple answers on this problem. 1.6e-8 1.6 × 10-7 1.6 × 10-8 1.6e-7 1.6 × 108 1.6e8 1.6 × 107 1.6e7

To convert our number to scientific notation, we are going to move the decimal point to the right until we have only one non-zero digit to the left of the decimal point, and then, we are going to multiply that number by a negative power of 10 equal to the number of times we moved the decimal point to the right:

Our number is 0.000000016, so we need to move the decimal point 8 times to the right to have only one non-zero digit to the left of the decimal point (1.6). Since we moved the decimal point eight times to the right, we are going to multiply 1.6 by y a negative power of 10 equal to the number of times we moved the decimal point to the right i.e. .
So 0.000000016 expressed in scientific notation is 1.6x, or in calculator notation 1.6E-8

We can conclude that the correct answers are 1.6E-8 and 1.6 × 10-8