Question

I’m really trying to figure this out, but cant. Can someone help me

Answer 1

there are 60 seconds in 1 minute.

there are 60 minutes in 1 hour.

so in 1 hr there are 60 * 60 seconds, 60 minutes 60 times :).

so 1 hr has 3600 seconds then.

how many seconds in 17 hours?  well just 17 * 3600, their product.

we know the photon can do 3x10⁸  meters in one second,  namely 300000000 m/s.

so, how many meters did it travel in 17 hours?

well, we know 17 hours is (17*3600) seconds

so, we can say, how many seconds did the photon travel in (17*3600) seconds?  we know it can do 3x10⁸ in 1 second alone.

so the distance travelled is just their product, (17*3600) * 300000000.

so is really just 18360000000000 meters, or in scientific notation, there are 10 zeros and then we move the dot over 3 more slots in front of the "1",  1.836 x 10¹³.