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Which is the more reasonable measurement of the distance between the tracks on a railroad: 1.435 ⋅ 10^−3 mm or 1.435 ⋅ 10^3 mm? Justify your answer
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Which is the more reasonable measurement of the distance between the tracks on a railroad: 1.435 ⋅ 10^−3 mm or 1.435 ⋅ 10^3 mm? Justify your answer

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1.435 ⋅ 10^3 = 1.435 mm
1.435 ⋅ 10^-3 = 0.001435 mm

1.435 ⋅ 10^-3 = 0.001435 mm is very small and can't use to measure the distance between tracks on railroad.

So answer is 1.435 ⋅ 10^3 mm is the more reasonable
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