The following lengths are given in meters. Use metric prefixes to rewrite them so the numerical value is bigger than one but less than 1000. For example, 7.9×10-2m could be written either as 7.9 cm or 79 mm. (a) 7.59x107m; (b) 0.0074 m; (c) 8.8×10-11m; (d) 1.63×1013m.

The following lengths are given in meters. Use metric prefixes to rewrite them so the numerical value is bigger than one but less than 1000. For example, 7.9×10-2m could be written either as 7.9 cm or 79 mm. (a) 7.59x107m; (b) 0.0074 m; (c) 8.8×10-11m; (d) 1.63×1013m.

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value is bigger than one but less than 1000. For example, 7.9x10-2m could be written either as
7.9 cm or 79 mm. (a) 7.59x107m; (b) 0.0074 m; (c) 8.8x10-11m; (d) 1.63×1013m.

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