Question

Light travels approximately 982,080,000 ft/s, and one year has approximately 32,000,000 seconds. A light year is the distance light travels in one year. State the speed in ft/s, using scientific notation.

Answer 1

Answer

9.82 × 10⁸ ft/s

Explanation

A number written in scientific notation is in the form'

A × 10ⁿ

Where 1 ≤ A < 10 and

n ⇒ is an integer.

982,080,000 = 9.82 × 100,000,000

= 9.82 × 100,000,000

= 9.82 × 10⁸ ft/s