To write 1.2 million in scientific notation, follow these steps:
- First, express 1.2 million as a number: 1,200,000.
- Move the decimal point to the right of the first non-zero digit: 1.2.
- Count how many places you moved the decimal point. In this case, it was moved 6 places to the left.
- Write the number as a product of the decimal number and 10 raised to the power of the number of places the decimal was moved: 1.2 × 106.
So, 1.2 million in scientific notation is written as 1.2 × 106.