Practical Mathematics for Grade 11, Problem ID: 5355

Practical Mathematics K11Leslie Green asks:

Engineers need to use quantities which can vary over at least 30 orders of magnitude. Using zeros such as 12300000000000 is impractical. Engineering notation uses a number between 1 and just less than 1000 followed by a standard multiplier for thousands, millions, and so forth.

Express the frequency of 3 thousand million Hertz (Hz) in engineering notation.


3,000,000,000 Hz3 MHz3 GHz3 THz