Question

Scientists discovered a large star 400,000 light years from Earth.A light-year is about 5,880,000,000,000 miles.What is the distance of the large star from Earth in scientific notation?

Answer 1

So if you want to find the distance, you would take 400,000x5,880,000,000,000=
2.35200000E+18. So your answer would be 2.35200000E+18 in scientific notation it would be 2.35200000x10^18. I hope this helps!