Question

The average distance from Earth to the Sun is 92.95 million miles. The actual distance varies from the average by up to 1.55 million miles. Write and solve an absolute value equation to find the minimum and maximum distance from Earth to the Sun. Use d for distance

Answer 1

The average distance from Earth to the Sun is 92.95 million miles 1. The actual distance varies from the average by up to 1.55 million miles 1. Let’s use d to represent the distance from Earth to the Sun.

We can write an absolute value equation to find the minimum and maximum distance from Earth to the Sun as follows:

|d - 92.95| = 1.55

Solving for d, we get:

d - 92.95 = 1.55 or d - 92.95 = -1.55

d = 94.5 or d = 91.4

Therefore, the minimum and maximum distance from Earth to the Sun are 91.4 million miles and 94.5 million miles, respectively 2.

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