Question

Sense of Proportion: The largest red giant stars are nearly 1000 times the diameter of the Sun. If you represent the Sun with a golf ball (diameter 1.68 inches), how big an object would you need to represent a big red giant?

Answer 1

The diameter of the object that represent the giant red start is 1680 inches.

Explanation:

We are given the following in the question:

"The largest red giant stars are nearly 1000 times the diameter of the sun"

The sun is represented by a golf ball

Diameter of golf ball = 1.68 inches

Diameter of the object that represent the red giant star =

`1000 * 1.68 = 1680 \text{ inches}`

Thus, the diameter of the object that represent the giant red start is 1680 inches.