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Light travels at 186282 miles per second, and the Sun is about 93 million miles from the Earth. How many minutes does it take light to reach the Earth from the Sun?
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Light travels at 186282 miles per second, and the Sun is about 93 million miles from

the Earth. How many minutes does it take light to reach the Earth from the Sun?

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As we know.. Time = distance /speed Therefore.. putting the values of D as 93,000,000 and S as 186282 T = 93,000,000/186282 T=499.24 seconds T=500 seconds approx or 8.25 minutes
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