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The speed of light is 1.86 × 105 miles/second. How far will light travel in 500 seconds?

User Divenex
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Answer:

9.3 × 107 miles

Explanation:

User Manoj Mohan
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Answer:

Light will travel 9.3 ×
10^(7) miles in 500 seconds.

Explanation:

Given:

speed = 1.86 ×
10^(5) miles/sec

time = 500 sec

Using the formula of distance

distance = speed × time

= 1.86 ×
10^(5) × 500

= 93,000,000 miles or 9.3 ×
10^(7) miles


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