Question

If the diameter of Spaceship Earth is 0.05km and diameter of the sun is 1.4 million km what is the scale for this model

Answer 1

The scale is 1 to 280 million

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

`d_1 = 0.05km`

`d_2 = 14m\ km`

Required

The scale

The scale is represented as:

`Scale = d_1:d_2`

So, we have:

`Scale = 0.05km : 14m\ km`

Cancel out the units

`Scale = 0.05 : 14m`

Divide both sides by 0.05

`Scale = 1: 280\ m`