Question

HELP PLS!!!! Light travels approximately 982,080,000 ft/s, and one year has approximately 32,000,000 seconds. A light year is the distance light travels in one year.

State the speed in ft/s, using scientific notation.

3.069 x 101 ft/s
9.8208 x 108 ft/s
3.0 x 1016 ft/s

Answer 1

You've already told us the speed in ft/s . It's right there in the question. You said that light travels about 982,080,000 ft/s.

We don't know how accurate that number is, but for purposes of THIS question, that's the number we're going with.

In scientific notation, it's written . . . 9.8208 x 10⁸ ft/s .

We don't know where you were going with the number of seconds in a year. But to answer the question that you eventually asked, it turned out that we don't even need it.