How is the number 0.0000981 written in scientific notation?

And, How did you get the answer?

In scientific notation, this number would be 9.81x10^-5

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to put something into scientific notation, we need to make the base between 1 and 10. In order to do this, we move decimal places. If we move it to the right, we make the exponent on the 10 negative 1 for each place. Since we move it five places, the exponent we use is - 5.

9.81x10^-5