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The distance from the earth to the sun is 149600000000 m. Write it in standard form.

Distance from earth to sun = 149600000000 m


In standard form we have,


149600000000 = 1496 × 100000000


= 1.496 × 1000 × 100000000


= 1.496 × 103 × 108 = 1.496 × 1011 m.


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