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.
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Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source):
Answer by ikleyn(52817)  (Show Source):
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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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