To find the total distance Sita will travel to see her grandmother in Seattle from Los Angeles, we need to first find the distance between these two cities, which is given in the table:
- Distance from Los Angeles to Seattle: \( 1.5442 \times 10^3 \) miles
Now, to find the total distance Sita will travel for three trips, we will multiply the one-way distance by the number of trips:
\[ \text{Total Distance} = \text{Distance from Los Angeles to Seattle} \times 3 \]
Substituting the distance:
\[ \text{Total Distance} = 1.5442 \times 10^3 \times 3 \]
Now, we perform the multiplication:
\[ 1.5442 \times 3 = 4.6326 \]
Thus, the total distance in scientific notation becomes:
\[ \text{Total Distance} = 4.6326 \times 10^3 \]
Now we will express this in decimal notation:
\[ 4.6326 \times 10^3 = 4632.6 \text{ miles} \]
Therefore, the total distance Sita will travel to visit her grandmother in Seattle three times is:
- Decimal notation: 4632.6 miles
- Scientific notation: \( 4.6326 \times 10^3 \) miles
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