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If MARS is about 228,000,000km from the Sun. How would you find out how many minutes it takes light from the Sun to reach Mars? TELL MATH OPERATIONS ON HOW TO SOLVE
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If MARS is about 228,000,000km from the Sun. How would you find out how many minutes it takes light from the Sun to reach Mars?

TELL MATH OPERATIONS ON HOW TO SOLVE

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Find out how fast the speed of light is (300 thousand km a sec) and divide 228,000,000 by it. It will take 760 seconds. Divide that by 60 and it will take 12.66 minutes for the light from the sun to reach mars
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