the sun is one hundred and fifty million kilometers away from earth
( a) as an ordinary whole number
( b ) in scientific notation
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Answer:
a) as ordinary whole number: 150,000,000 km
1. The ordinary whole number, these include whole numbers
2. Rational and irrational numbers, and real and imaginary numbers.
(b) In scientific notation: 1.5 ×108 km
1. Scientific notation is a way of writing very large or very small numbers.
2. A number is written in scientific notation when a number between 1 and 10 is multiplied by a power of 10.
It is given that the distance between sun and earth is one hundred and fifty million kilometers.
We have to write this value in ordinary whole number and scientific notation.
- Whole number: whole number is a number which is not a fraction and do not have decimal.
As per the question, the given value as whole number will be 1,50,000,000 km.
- Scientific notation: scientific notation is when a number is written in the terms of exponent of 10.
For example, if the number is 612
the scientific notation will be 6.12 × 10²
As per the question the scientific notation for 1,50,000,000 will be
1.5 × 10⁸