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Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

A light-nanosecond is the distance that a photon can travel at the speed of light in one billionth of a second. The speed of light is 3×108ms13 \times 10^8\,\mathrm{ms}^{-1}. How far is a light-nanosecond?

(A) 3cm3\,\text{cm} (B) 30cm30\,\text{cm} (C) 3m3\,\text{m} (D) 30m30\,\text{m} (E) 300m300\,\text{m}

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