Psychology GCSE
Decimal and standard form notation
What Decimal and standard form notation means in Psychology GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Decimal and standard form notation
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Writing numbers as decimals or as a number between 1 and 10 multiplied by a power of ten, where a number below 1 has a negative index.
Topics that use Decimal and standard form notation
- Data handling (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Arithmetic mean and significant figures
- Calculating from raw scores
- Choosing appropriate displays
- Frequency tables and tallies
- Histograms for continuous data
- Measures of central tendency
- Primary data
- Proportions within standard deviations
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