Question

The speed of light is about 671,000,000 miles per hour. How will you write this number in scientific notation? (1 point)
• 6.71 × 10-8
0 6.71 × 10-3
• 6.71 × 103
0 6.71 × 108

Answers

GPT-4o mini
To write 671,000,000 in scientific notation, you need to express it in the form \( a \times 10^n \), where \( a \) is a number between 1 and 10, and \( n \) is an integer.

671,000,000 can be rewritten as:

\[ 6.71 \times 100,000,000 \]

Since \( 100,000,000 \) is \( 10^8 \), we can write:

\[ 671,000,000 = 6.71 \times 10^8 \]

Therefore, the correct answer is:

• 6.71 × 10^8