Question

Scientists discovered an unknown planet 265,000 light years from Earth. A light year is about 5,880,000,000,000 miles.

What is the distance of the planet from Earth in scientific notation?

Answer 1

A. because if you take 265,000 and multiply by 5,880,000,000,000 you will get 1,558,200,000,000,000,000 and put into scientific notation is 1.5582 X 10E18 (which means to the power of 18) which makes the answer A. also I know I'm late I was stumped myself and decided to actually apply myself and look at me now

Answer 2

The answer is C. 1.5582 x 10^17