Question

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.

Answer 1

\[5.89x10^{12}\]

Answer 2

5.87863x10^12 to be 100% accurate

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

yeah. sorry :)