How many miles is 500 million light years?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-22T14:30:35

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The relation between lights years and miles is:

#1" light year" = 5,878,625,373,183.6 " miles"#

Therefore, if we multiply each side of the equation by #500" million"# we will know how many miles in 500 million light years:

#500" million" xx 1" light year" = 500" million" xx5,878,625,373,183.6 " miles"#

#500" million light years" = 2939312686591800.00 " million miles"#

#500" million light years" = 2939312686591800.00 xx 1000000" mile"#

#500" million light years" = 2939312686591800000000 "miles"#

There are 2,939,312,686,591,800,000,000 miles in 500 million light years

or

#2.939 xx 10^21# miles in 500 million light years.