Elementary Technical Mathematics

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1285199197
ISBN 13: 978-1-28519-919-1

Chapter 2 - Section 2.7 - Engineering Notation - Exercises - Page 130: 1

Answer

$28 \times 10^3$

Work Step by Step

We move the decimal point in groups of three decimal places and take the fact that the exponent of the power of $10 $ must be divisible by $3$. Thus: $$28,000=28 \times 10^3.$$
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