How should the decimal point in 34.05 be moved to determine the product 34.05×106 ?

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The decimal point should be moved
places to the right because there are
zeros in 106

Six places to the right

Step-by-step explanation:

For this exercise you need to remember that, by definition, the exponent of a number indicates the number of times you must use the same factor to multiply.

Then, given:

"b" is the base and "n" is the exponent.

In this case, you have the following multiplication provided in the exercise:

As you can observe,the base 10 has an exponent 6. This indicates the following:

 By definition, moving the decimal point 6 places to the right (because there are six zeros), is the same as multiplying the decimal number 34.05 by 1,000,000.

Therefore, you must move the decimal point six places to the right in order to find the product.

You get the following result: