Question

Light travels at 186,282 miles per second,and the sun is 93 million miles from the earth.How many seconds does it take for the light to reach the earth

Answer 1

Hello! So to find the number of seconds it take for light to reach Earth, all you have to do is divide the distance from earn by the distance light travels per second. 93,000,000/186,282 is 499.2430831 or 499.25 seconds when rounded to the nearest hundredth. It takes about 499.25 seconds for light to reach the Earth.

Answer 2

Want it exact? Here it is:499.243083(got it from my calculator), if rounded, then here it is:500