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paigebmaxwell6062
29.08.2019 • 
Physics

Can you just check my answer? . light travels 300,000,000 m/s, and one year has approximately 32,000,000 seconds. a light year is the distance light travels in one year.. state this distance in centimeters.. i'm assuming that this is asking the distance light travels. well i multiplied 32,000,000*300,000,000 and got 9.6x10^(15). putting that into centimeters gave me 9.6x10^(17). however, all of the answers i am allowed to choose from are in 1x10^x. so i guess they rounded the 9.6 to 10, but when put in sci. notation it looks like 1. so would that make my answer 1x10^(17)? i would think so because even though i rounded 9.6 to 10, giving me 10x10^(16) (b/c i took one away from behind the decimal point) and then when i put it in correct sci. notation, i would put the other zero behind the decimal point, giving me 1x10^(17)? right? . , y'all!

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