Question

Neptune’s average distance from the sun is 4.503 x 10e9 km. Mercury’s average distance from the sun is 5.791 x10e9 km.about how many times farther from the sun is Neptune than mercury?

Answer 1

The answer to the nearest thousandth is 77.759.

Explanation:

First, calculate Neptune's distance from the Sun 4.503 × 10^9 and get 4,503,000,000 then calculate Mercury's distance from the sun 5.791 × 10^7 and get 57,910,000. Then divide 4,503,000,000 by 57,910,000 and get 77.7585909169 but by rounding to the nearest thousandth you get 77.759. In scientific notation, though it would be 7.776x10^1.

Thats it. ;)

Answer 2

77.76 times

Explanation:

The average distance of Neptune from the sun

= 4.503 × 10 ⁹ k m .

and Mercury = 5.791 × 10 ⁷ k m .

Hence neptune is ( 4.503 × 10 ⁹) ÷ (5.791 × 10 ⁷ ) times farther from the sun than mercury

i.e.(
`(4.503)/(5.791)` ) × 10⁹⁻⁷ times

= 0.7776 × 10 ² times

= 77.76 times.