Question

Imagine that the Sun, Earth, and Jupiter were perfectly aligned. As a reminder, Earth is

the third planet from the Sun and Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun. To find the
distance, you need to add the distances from the Sun to Earth and the Earth to Jupiter
together. The average distance from the Sun to the Earth is 1.5 x 108 km. The distance
from the Earth to Jupiter at their closest point is 5.88 x 108
km.
What is the distance from the Sun to Jupiter?

Answer 1

If the Sun, Earth, and Jupiter are perfectly aligned, then the distance from the Sun to Jupiter would be the sum of the distance from the Sun to the Earth (1.5 x 10^8 km) and the distance from the Earth to Jupiter (5.88 x 10^8 km).

Therefore, the distance from the Sun to Jupiter would be:

1.5 x 10^8 km + 5.88 x 10^8 km = 7.38 x 10^8 km

So the distance from the Sun to Jupiter is 7.38 x 10^8 km.