Answer: 6.72 x 10^-5. The number is an extremely small number that started out as 6.72. You would divide the number by 10, so many times to get this number. Since the number is small, the exponent is negative. The exponent tells how many times the decimal point will be moved to the left. If the number started as 6.72 and is now 0.0000672, that means that the decimal point moved 5 times to the left.