Question

An airplane flight from Houston, Texas to Rome, Italy is 5,686 miles. Estimate the distance between the two cities as the product of a single digit number times a power of 10.(1 point)

Answer 1

One possible way to estimate the distance between Houston, Texas and Rome, Italy as the product of a single-digit number times a power of 10 is as follows:

First, let's estimate the distance as a single-digit number. We could round 5,686 to 6,000.

Next, let's express 6,000 as a product of a single-digit number and a power of 10. In this case, we can express it as 6 * 10^3.

Therefore, one possible estimate of the distance between Houston, Texas and Rome, Italy is 6 * 10^3 miles.