[ATTACH=full]1800[/ATTACH] I need help with 159 and 160.
Astronomy One light-year is defined by astronomers to be the distance that a beam of light will travel in 1 year 365 days If the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, how many miles are in a light-year? Express your answer in scientific notation. 159. the speed of light is 186,000 miles/second time is 365 days -> convert to seconds 1day=86400 seconds 365 days =365*86400 seconds=31536000seconds distance=speed*time 186,000 miles/second*31536000seconds =186,000 miles*31536000 =186,000 miles*31536000 =5.88 trillion miles =5.866*10^12miles 160. 93,000,000miles/(186,000(miles/second )) = (93,000,000/186,000)seconds =500 seconds = 5*10^2 seconds