Question

question 5
1 pts
the distance from the sun to mercury is approximately ( 3.6 \times 10^7 ) miles. rewrite this value in standard notation.

Explanation:

Step1: Understand scientific notation

Scientific notation \( a \times 10^n \) (where \( 1 \leq a < 10 \) and \( n \) is an integer) can be converted to standard notation by moving the decimal point \( n \) places. If \( n \) is positive, move the decimal to the right.
Here, \( a = 3.6 \) and \( n = 7 \).

Step2: Move the decimal point

For \( 3.6 \times 10^7 \), we move the decimal point in \( 3.6 \) seven places to the right.
Starting with \( 3.6 \), moving the decimal 7 places right: \( 3.6
ightarrow 36000000 \) (we add 6 zeros after moving the decimal 6 more places from 36 to reach 7 total moves).

Answer:

36000000