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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A light year is the distance that light can travel in a year and is about 5,878,630,000,000 miles. Write this number in scientific notation.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

\[5.89x10^{12}\]

OpenStudy (anonymous):

5.87863x10^12 to be 100% accurate

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yeah could be, however scientist notation was made to avoid writing long numbers

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Oh well! Anyway wouldn't it be 5.88x10^12, after rounding to 2.d.p.?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yeah. sorry :)

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