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)

Question

Responses

6×10^3

6×10^4

5×10^3

5×10^4

Answer 1

To estimate the distance between Houston, Texas and Rome, Italy as the product of a single digit number times a power of 10, we can round the distance to the nearest thousand miles.

The nearest thousand miles to 5,686 is 6,000.

So, the estimate would be 6 × 10^3.

Therefore, the correct answer is 6×10^3.