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Assignment 2: Calculate the number of seconds in a week. Express them in the power of 10 notation.

Answer

We calculate the number of seconds in a week (7 days) as follow.

No of seconds in a week = 1 × 7 × 24 × 60 × 60 = 604800 seconds

To convert to power of 10 form, we have mantissa = 6048, therefore,

604800 = 6048 × 102 = 6.048 × 105 s.

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