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the distance from earth to the sun is about 93,000,000 miles. what is the order of magnitude of this number

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step 1
convert the number to scientific notation
93,000,000 miles-------> 9.3 x 10^7

the exponent on the 10 is your order of magnitude
therefore

the answer is
7
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