SOLUTION: Light travels approximately 5.87 x 10^12 mi. in one year. This distance is called a light-year. Suppose a star is 2 x 10^4 light-years away. How many miles away is the star?
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Question 69928: Light travels approximately 5.87 x 10^12 mi. in one year. This distance is called a light-year. Suppose a star is 2 x 10^4 light-years away. How many miles away is the star?
Answer by checkley75(3666) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(5.87x10^12)(2x10^4)
11.74x10^16
1.174x10^17 miles. or
117,400,000,000,000,000 miles
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