The age of the universe is thought to be about 14 billion years. Assuming two significant figures, write this in powers of ten in (a) years, (b) seconds.

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The age of the universe is thought to be about 14 billion years. Assuming two significant figures, write this in powers of ten in (a) years, (b) seconds.

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It could be express as (A) 14 x 10 to the tenth power or (b) 4.415 x 10 to the seventeenth power.

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