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6.2.3a Galaxies and the scale of the Universe

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Question 14

A distant galaxy is moving away from the Milky Way at 1.1 × 107 m s-1. What is the approximate distance between the Milky Way and this distant galaxy?

(Take Hubble's constant to be H0=2.2×10−18 s−1H_0 = 2.2 \times 10^{-18} \text{ s}^{-1}H0​=2.2×10−18 s−1)

A

5×1012 m5 \times 10^{12} \text{ m}5×1012 m

B

2×1013 m2 \times 10^{13} \text{ m}2×1013 m

C

5×1024 m5 \times 10^{24} \text{ m}5×1024 m

D

2×1025 m2 \times 10^{25} \text{ m}2×1025 m

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