Question

The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 92,640 miles Write the distance between the Earth and the Sun, rounded to two significant figures

Answer 1

Explanation:

In scientific notation, we can write the distance as

92,640 mi = 9.264×10^4 mi

Reducing this to 2 signficant figures, we get

9.3×10^4 mi

with proper rounding off of the. numbers.