Answer: [tex]1.3 \times 10^{13}[/tex]
Explanation:
We are given, that in 2010, the United States national debt was estimated to be nearly 13,000,000,000,000 dollars.
We are required to find the national debt in scientific notation. The scientific notation is used to represent either very small number or very large number.
The scientific form of the given number is:
[tex]1.3 \times 10^{13}[/tex]