The 2008 population of Beaufort Country of North Carolina was .

The scientific notation form of number is , where and n is an integer.

The standard form to scientific notation:

Move the decimal point until it is to the right of the first nonzero digit.

The result is a real number a.

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The decimal point moved 4 places to the left, so .

Here the decimal point moved left, so write the number as .

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Remove the unnecessary zeros.

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The scientific notation of number is .