An airplane flight from Houston, Texas to Rome, Italy is 5,686 miles. Estimate the distance between the two cities as the product of a single digit number times a power of 10.(1 point)
Responses
6×10^3
6×10^4
5×10^3
5×10^4
To estimate the distance between Houston, Texas and Rome, Italy as the product of a single digit number times a power of 10, we can round the distance to the nearest thousand miles.
The nearest thousand miles to 5,686 is 6,000.
So, the estimate would be 6 × 10^3.
Therefore, the correct answer is 6×10^3.