CHEMISTRY THE CENTRAL SCIENCE >EBOOK<
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Author: Brown
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Chapter 1.6, Problem 1.9.2PE
Practice Exercise 1
At a particular instant in time, the Earth is judged to be 92,955,000 miles from the Sun. What is the distance in kilometers to four significant figures? (See the back inside cover for the conversion factor).
- 5763 x 104km
- 1.496 x 108 km
- 1.49596 x 108 km
- 1.483 x 104km
- 57,759,000 km
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