We are asked to write the quotient : 1/10,000,000,000,000 in a notation with powers of ten. This is called "scientific notation".
when we perform the division of 1 by that enormous number, we get:
0.0000000000001
This can be represented by a 10 to a negative exponent. Notice that we have 13 zeros in the denominator (which implies that we have to divide 13 times by ten)
so we can write the answer as: 1 * 10^(-13)
which with the appropriate equation editor becomes:
[tex]1\cdot10^{-13}[/tex]the base 10 with exponent -13 (negative 13)
