Question 8 » Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has a diameter of about 1* 10^21 meters. The largest galaxy known to man, the IC 1101, has a diameter of 5 * 10^22 meters. The diameter of the IC 1101 is about how many times greater than the diameter of the Milky Way? Milky Way: 1x 1021 m IC 1101: 5 x 1022 m 5 50 5,000 500

Answer :

We want to find the ratio of the IC 1101 galaxy diameter (Dic) to the milky Way diameter (Dmw), we can do it like this:

[tex]\frac{Dic}{\text{Dmw}}=\frac{5\times10^{22}}{1\times10^{21}}[/tex]

And from the exponent property:

[tex]\frac{a^b}{a^c}=a^{b-c}[/tex]

Then:

[tex]\frac{Dic}{\text{Dmw}}=\frac{5\times10^{22}}{1\times10^{21}}=5\times\frac{10^{22}}{10^{21}}=5\times10^{22-21}=5\times10^1=5\times10=50[/tex]

Then, the diameter of the galaxy IC 1101 is 50 times the diameter of the milky way

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