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.
Instead of writing a bunch of zeros to describe larger or small objects engineers write things in scientific notation. Forming a number in scientific notation has 3 easy steps: 1. Place a decimal point in the original number so that there is one, nonzero number to the left of it. That number should be between 1 and 10. 2.