Q. 1454.5( 2 Votes )
There are 864,00 seconds in a day. How many days long is a second?
Express your answer in scientific notation.
Answer :
Given, there are 86, 400 seconds in a day.
1 day = 86400 seconds
∴ 1 second = of a day
⇒
Counting the number of places after the decimal point,
There are 9 places after the decimal point.
⇒ 0.000011574 =
⇒ 1000000000 can be written as 109.
∴
We know that by law of exponents,
∴
= 1.1574 × 104-9
= 1.1574 × 10-5 of a day
∴ A second is 1.1574 × 10-5 of a day.
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