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Astronomers measure large distances in light-years. One light-year is the distance that light can travel in one year, or approximately 5,880,000,000,000 miles. Suppose a star is…

Astronomers measure large distances in light-years. One light-year is the distance that light can travel in one year, or approximately 5,880,000,000,000 miles. Suppose a star is…
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Astronomers measure large distances in light-years. One light-year is the distance that light can travel in one year, or approximately 5,880,000,000,000 miles. Suppose a star is 14.4 light-years from Earth. In scientific notation, how many miles away is it?

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Answer:

8.4672 x 10^13

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User Flurble
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(14.4) x (5,880,000,000,000 miles) = 84,672,000,000,000 miles

(14.4) x (5.88 x 10¹²)

= 84.672 x 10¹²

= 8.4672 x 10¹³ .
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