Your teacher just told your class that the temperature of thecore of the sun 1.5

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Your teacher just told your class that the temperature of thecore of the sun 1.5 X 107 degrees. a.) Sally asks whether this is the Kelvin or Celsius scale.What will be the teacher's answer? b.)Would it matter if you use the Celsius or Fahrenheit scale?Why? Your teacher just told your class that the temperature of thecore of the sun 1.5 X 107 degrees. a.) Sally asks whether this is the Kelvin or Celsius scale.What will be the teacher's answer? b.)Would it matter if you use the Celsius or Fahrenheit scale?Why?

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(a) does not matter.   Temp in Kelvin is 273 + temp in Celsius. Adding 273 to  15000000   is still about the same number due torounding. . (b) yes, it does matter if you use Fahrenheit, becauseto convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit you have to use a factor of9/5. So: .             15000000 in Celsius is    (9/5) *15000000 =   27000000 = 2.7 x107 F     which is verydifferent

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