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Answer these questions about a light year.?


Light travels 300,000,000m/sec, and one year has approximately 32,000,000 seconds. A light year is the distance light travels in one year. Based on this data:

Astate the speed in m/sec using scientific notation
Bstate the speed in km/sec using scientific notation
Cstate the number of seconds in one year using scientific notation
Dcalculate the distance in meters of one light year
Estate this distance in centimeters

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Astate the speed in m/sec using scientific notation

3.0 x 10^8 m/sec

b. state the speed in km/sec using scientific notation


3.0 x 10^5 km/sec

c. state the number of seconds in one year using scientific notation

 3.2 x 10^7 sec

d. calculate the distance in meters of one light year

1 light year = 9.4605284 x 10^15 meters

e. state this distance in centimeters

9.4605284 x 10^12 centimeters
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These are five questions and five answers:

a. State the speed in m/sec using scientific notation

i) Find the place value of the digit with the highest place value (the digit most to the left) in the number 300,000,000: hundred millions.

ii) Determine the number of zeros corresponding to that place value: 9

ii) Write the digit with the highest place value, mulitplied by the power of ten with exponent equal to the number of zeros corresponding to the place of such digit less 1 (9 - 1 = 8): 3 × 10⁸

iii) Complete with the units: 3 × 10⁸ m/s ← answer

b. State the speed in km/sec using scientific notation

i) State the conversion factor: 1 km = 1000 m = 10³ m

⇒ 1 = 1 km / 10³ m

ii) Multiply by the conversion factor:

3 × 10⁸ m/s × 1 km / (10³ m)

iii) Simplify (cancel the units that are common in the numerator and denominator)

3 × (10⁸ / 10³) km/s = 3 × 10⁵ km/s ← answer

c. State the number of seconds in one year using scientific notation

i) Find the place value of the digit with the highest place value (the digit most to the left) in the number 32,000,000: ten millions.

ii) Determine the number of zeros corresponding to that place value: 8

ii) Write the digit with the highest place value, as integer, add the other significant figures as decimals, mulitplied by the power of ten with exponent equal to the number of zeros corresponding to the place of the digit with highest place value less 1 (8 - 1 = 7): 3.2 × 10⁷

iii) Complete with the units: 3.2 × 10⁷ s ← answer

d. Calculate the distance in meters of one light year

i) distance formula: distance = speed × time

ii) Replace with the numbers in scientific notation:

distance = 3 × 10⁸ m/s × 3.2 × 10⁷ s

iii) Simplify (due the operations and cancel the units that are common in the numerator and denominator)

3 × 10⁸ m/s × 3.2 × 10⁷ s = 9.6 × 10 ¹⁵ m ← answer

e. State this distance in centimeters

i) State the conversion factor: 1m = 100 cm = 10² cm

⇒ 1 = 10² cm / 1 m

ii) Multiply by the conversion factor: 9.6 × 10 ¹⁵ m × 10² cm / 1 m

iii) Simplily: 9.6 × 10⁷ cm ← answer


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