Ok, so I took a Math test a few days ago, and I just got it back. One of the questions involved scientific notation.

The question was to turn 205,000 into scientific notation.

The answer I had put was: 2.05000 x 10 to the power of 5

And although the "proper" way to write it would be to take out the zeros to make it 2.05 x 10 to the power of 5, is mine in actuality wrong? The place value is...