One symbol thing off roughly it takes light less than 0.00000003 of a second to travel 1 m distance Express this number in the form of a * 10 ^ n where 1 is greater a greater 10 and is one digit number

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To express the number in the form of a * 10^n, we need to move the decimal point until there is only one non-zero digit to the left of it and count the number of decimal places shifted.

In this case, we need to shift the decimal point 8 places to the left to have only one non-zero digit (3) to the left of it:

0.00000003 = 3 * 10^(-8)

Therefore, the number 0.00000003 can be expressed as 3 * 10^(-8) in the requested form.