To write the number 0.000005 in scientific notation, we need to express it as a product of a number between 1 and 10 and a power of 10.
First, we move the decimal point in the number 0.000005 to the right until we get a number between 1 and 10. Moving the decimal point five places to the right gives us 5.0. That can be simplified to just 5. Next, we account for the moves we made by multiplying by 10 raised to the power of -5, since we moved the decimal point to the right.
Therefore, 0.000005 can be written in scientific notation as:
5.0 × 10-6
This means that 5.0 is multiplied by 10 raised to the power of -6, effectively converting our small decimal number into a more manageable format while maintaining its value.