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The average distance in kilometers (km) from the sun to the planet Mercury is about 58,000,000 km. Write this distance in scientific notation. .
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The average distance in kilometers (km) from the sun to the planet Mercury is about 58,000,000 km. Write this distance in scientific notation. .

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To do this you move the invisible decimal point behind the last zero in the number until it is behind the first digit in the number. So you should get 5.8 time 10^7 with the exponet being the number of places you moved the decimal.
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