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Light travels at 186, 282 miles per second. Based on a 365-day year, how many miles will light travel in one year? Express your answer in scientific notation to the nearest thou…

Light travels at 186, 282 miles per second. Based on a 365-day year, how many miles will light travel in one year? Express your answer in scientific notation to the nearest thou…
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Light travels at 186, 282 miles per second. Based on a 365-day year, how many miles will light travel in one year? Express your answer in scientific notation to the nearest thousandth.

User Eirini Graonidou
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3.154e+7 = the seconds we have in a year. and that multiplied by the number light travels per second you get : 506373.975569. which is the scientific notation of a big whopping
= 5.06373975569 × 105
(scientific notation)
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