Question

The distance from Earth to the moon is 384,400 kilometers. What is this distance expressed in scientific notation? 3.844E5 kilometers 3.844 × 105 kilometers 3.844E-5 kilometers 3.844E-6 kilometers 3.844 × 106 kilometers 3.844E6 kilometers 3.844 × 10-6 kilometers 3.844 × 10-5 kilometers

Answer 1

Answer:

Distance expressed in scientific notation is 3.844E+5 km or

3.844 × 10⁵ km

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

distance from earth to moon = 384,400 km

To find:

distance from earth to moon in scientific notation = ?

Solution:

To express the number in scientific notation

• put a decimal point after the first digit of the number
• all the other digits following the first digit is raised to the power of 10 or written in the format (E + n), where n is the number of digits following the first digit.

Answer 2

Answer:

Step-by-step explanation: