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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.

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Answer:

9.8208 x 10^8 ft/s

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Answer


9.82 × 10⁸ ft/s



Explanation

A number written in scientific notation is in the form'

A × 10ⁿ

Where 1 ≤ A < 10 and

n ⇒ is an integer.


982,080,000 = 9.82 × 100,000,000

= 9.82 × 100,000,000

= 9.82 × 10⁸ ft/s


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