Question

Scientists discovered a large star 113,000 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

Easy, just multiply 113,000 and 5,880,000,000,000 in your head and find the answer.

Just kidding. Find scientific notation for the numbers:

1.13 x 10^4 and 5.88 x 10^12

Then multiply 1.13 x 5.88 and 10^4 x 10^12. Bang.

Answer 2

Thanks for the answer!