Question

He sun is about 93 million miles from the earth. Express this distance in scientific notation. A) 0.93 x 108 B) 9.3 x 107 C) 9.3 x 106 D) 93 x 106

Answer 1

B) 9.3 * 10^7.

Explanation:

93,000,000

Recall that scientific notation is N.N.. * 10^n where N.N.. is a number between 1 and 10 and n is an integer.

There are 7 digits after the 9 so the distance in scientific form is

9.3 * 10^7.

Answer 2

B) 9.3*107

Explanation:

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