A light year is 5,880,000,000,000 miles. Can you show me how to express this in scientific notation.

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2022-08-08

A light year is 5,880,000,000,000 miles. Can you show me how to express this in scientific notation.

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Lisa Acevedo

Lisa Acevedo

Beginner2022-08-09Added 18 answers

Expressing a number as scientific notation is quite simple. Take your number, in this case it is 5,880,000,000,000.0: Nowfor every place you move the decimal to the left you add anexponent to the 10.
588 , 000 , 000 , 000 × 10 1 Now do this repeatedly until you getto a number between 1-10 multiplied by the 10 x
5.88 × 10 12 Miles!

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