Sita lives in Los Angeles, and her grandmother lives in Seattle (1.5442 X 10^3 distance from Los Angeles to Seattle). Sita plans to visit her grandmother three times in the next year. What is the total distance she will travel to make these three trips? Write and evaluate an expression that uses multiplication to calculate the total distance traveled. Give your answer in both decimal notation and scientific notation.
To calculate the total distance Sita will travel, we multiply the distance from Los Angeles to Seattle by the number of trips.
Multiplying the distance by the number of trips: 1.5442 X 10^3 * 3 = 4.6326 X 10^3
The total distance Sita will travel to make these three trips is 4.6326 X 10^3 or 4,632.6 (in decimal notation).