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A light-year is a unit of a. time. c. mass. b. distance. d. density. please select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d

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B. Distance

A light-year has a bit of a deceiving name. Despite the fact that it seems to imply it is a measure of time, this is not of fact correct. A light-year refers to how far light can travel within a year. One light year is approximately 6 trillion miles. Light years are used to measure extremely far distances such as how far the sun is from other stars, or how far away other exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) are.
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Answer:

distance

Step-by-step explanation:

it is the distance traveled by light in one year

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