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.
Rule 1: To express a number in scientific notation, you move the decimal point to. the position such that there is one nonzero digit to the left of the decimal point. Rule 2: If the decimal point is moved to the left, the exponent is positive. Rule 3: If the decimal point is moved to the right, the exponent is negative.