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A newly discovered solar system is found 300 billion kilometers from the sun. How many AU does this represent? Show your work.

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User Joethemow
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1 kilometer = 6.68 ×
10^(-9) (<<<AU is in scientific notation here)

To convert 300 billion kilometer (3,000,000,000 km) into AU you must multiply the kilometer by the equivalent of 1 km in AU (6.68 ×
10^(-9))

3,000,000,000 × (6.68 ×
10^(-9)) = 20.04 AU

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