Final answer:
To convert 50 years into seconds, you multiply the number of years by the conversion factors: 365 days/year, 24 hours/day, 60 minutes/hour, and 60 seconds/minute. The answer is 1.5768 x 10^9 seconds.
Step-by-step explanation:
To convert years into seconds, you need to know that there are 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. So, multiplying the number of years by these conversion factors will give you the answer in seconds.
Let's calculate:
50 years x 365 days/year x 24 hours/day x 60 minutes/hour x 60 seconds/minute = 1,576,800,000 seconds.
Now, let's express this in scientific notation:
1,576,800,000 = 1.5768 x 109 seconds.