We need to divide 4,971 by 10 until its a number less then 10.
4,971 / 10 = 497.1
497.1 / 10 = 49.71
49.71 / 10 = 4.971
Now, 4.971 is less then 10, so, we can write this into scientific notation.
4.971 * 10^?
We need to know what power we add to 10 to get 4,971. We can solve for looking at the number of times we divided. As you can see above, we divided 3 times so that will be the power of 10.
