Question

When Jupiter and Earth are closest to each other, they are about 365 million miles apart. Express this distance in scientific notation.

Answer 1

3.65 e8

Explanation:

The scientific notation e mean ‘10 raised to a particular power’. Therefore e8 is equivalent to 10 ^ 8.

We count the number of tens to the decimal point. In this case;

365000000

3.65000000

The decimal is 8 place values from the right (since this is a whole number)