Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or very small numbers. A number is written in scientific notation when a number between 1 and 10 is multiplied by a power of 10.
We have to determine the number of places we will move the decimal point to write 41,200 in scientific Notation.
41200 can be expressed as
which is further expressed as
Therefore, we moved one place to the left of the number 41200 to write it in scientific notation.