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OpenStudy (anonymous):

The center of the moon is 2.389 x 105 miles away from the center of the Earth. This is the same as 238,900,000 miles. True False

OpenStudy (anonymous):

should 5be the exponent here?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yesss. sorry . 10^5

OpenStudy (anonymous):

true

OpenStudy (anonymous):

True.

OpenStudy (barrycarter):

2.389 x 10^5 = move the decimal five places to the right or 238,900 miles. 238,900,000 miles is a thousand times as big (and is about 2.5 times the distance to the sun!)

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