An astronomer is calculating the number of light-years to a newly discovered star cluster.
The distance is recorded as \(472,700\) light-years.
To share this data with an international team of scientists,
she needs to express the number in expanded form using positive powers of \(10\) to ensure there are no errors in reading the large figure.
Can you write \(472,700\) in expanded form using powers of \(10\)?
\(472700 =\)