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Pls! does anybody know a shortcut for answering these types of questions in the future?

One astronomical unit (1 au) is about 1.496 alt tag missing. kilometers. if you wrote this number of kilometers in regular decimal notation (for example, 528 and 3,459 are written in regular decimal notation), how many zeros would your number have?

During the election for class president, 40% of the students voted for kellen, and 60% of the students voted for robbie. 500 students voted in total. how many more students voted for robbie than for kellen? answer with work : )