Light travels 300,000,000 m/s, and one year has approximately 32,000,000 seconds. A light year is the distance light travels in one year. State this distance in centimeters.

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Rohit Agrawal · Answer 1 · 2017-02-12T10:43:09+0000

(3 x 10⁸ meter/sec) x (100 cm/meter) x (3.2 x 10⁷ sec/year)

= (3 x 10⁸ x 100 x 3.2 x 10⁷) (meter-cm-sec) / (sec-meter-yr)

= ( 9.6 x 10¹⁷ ) ( cm/yr )

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