SOLUTION: The distance light travels in one second (called a light second) is 1.86 x 105. Saturn is about 475 light seconds from the sun. About how many miles from the sun is Saturn? suppose

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Question 1205873: The distance light travels in one second (called a light second) is 1.86 x 105. Saturn is about 475 light seconds from the sun. About how many miles from the sun is Saturn? supposed to be written in scientific notation.
Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, ikleyn:
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The distance light travels in one second (called a light second) is


Saturn is about light seconds from the sun.
light seconds
About how many miles from the sun is Saturn?

Answer by ikleyn(52821)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The distance light travels in one second (called a light second) is 1.86 x 105.
Saturn is about 475 light seconds from the sun.
About how many miles from the sun is Saturn? supposed to be written in scientific notation.
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First statement in your post is written  INCORRECTLY,  since the dimension of the distance is missed/lost/omitted.

The correct form of this statement is

    The distance light travels in one second (called a light second) is 1.86 x 10^5 . 


Second statement in your post is INCORRECT, too - the distance of Saturn from the Sun
is approximately 10 times as great as it is written in your post.

You may learn it from Wikipedia, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn#:~:text=Orbit%20and%20rotation,-Animation%20of%20Saturn&text=The%20average%20distance%20between%20Saturn,one%20revolution%20around%20the%20Sun.


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You may ask me - how do you know what you state ? How can you react momentarily ?

It is very simple. From my school years, from my Science class/lessons, I remember that
the light moves from the Sun to the Earth about 6 minutes.

6 minutes is the same as 360 seconds, which is comparable with 475 seconds, the number
in your post.

But Saturn is many times farther from the Sun than the Earth is - where is my reaction from.



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