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ISBN: 9780136780984

Author: Wolfson

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 1, Problem 29E

The distance to the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest large neighbor galaxy of our Milky Way, is about 2.4 × 10²² in. Express this more succinctly using SI prefixes.

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