How do you write five tenths in standard form? - Answers

Five tenths can be expressed either in Decimal form or as a Vulgar Fraction. Both forms are standard forms. Answer :- 0.5 or 1/2 (called one half) Don't make mathematics more complicated than it needs to be . Just use basic terms. Modern teachers seem to have some strange need to make maths. more complex that it really is. The term 'standard form' is only used when quantities NEED to be expressed as powers of 10. Example :- 275.4 in Standard form is expressed as 1.754 x 10 to the power 2 . The answer to your question is really :- 5x 10 to the power minus 1, which I cannot type in mathematical language on this computer keyboard. Another example:- 427521.23 is an example where it is sensible to expres it in Standard Form because it is a very large quantity. It would be expressed as 4.2752123 x 10 to power 5 .