5,880,000,000,000 miles is equivalent to 1 light year. What is this number represented in scientific notation?'
5.88 x 10^12 miles.
To express the number 5,880,000,000,000 miles in scientific notation, we need to move the decimal point to a position where there is only one non-zero digit before the decimal point.
We can start by moving the decimal point 13 places to the left, which gives us 0.000000000000588.
Next, we count the number of places we moved the decimal point to obtain the original number. In this case, we moved the decimal point 13 places to the left, so the exponent of ten is -13.
Therefore, the number 5,880,000,000,000 miles in scientific notation is 5.88 × 10^-13.