Question

Saturn is 8.867 × 108 miles away from the Sun. Uranus is 1.787 × 109 miles away from the Sun. Approximately how many times farther is Uranus from the Sun than Saturn is?

A. 0.2 times
B. 2 times
C. 20 times
D. 200 times

Answer 1

a = 0.2 times

Answer 2

Uranus is approximately 5 times farther from the sun than Saturn. The smallest zero is x = -10 as its the left-most value on a number line.

Explanation:

Saturn:8.867 x 108 = 957. 636

Uranus: 1.787 x 109 = 194.783

b. 2 times