Question

Neptune's average distance from the sun is 4.503 × 109 km. mercury's average distance from the sun is 5.791 × 107 km. about how many times farther from the sun is neptune than mercury? enter your answer in scientific notation. if necessary, round your multiplier to the nearest ten-thousandth.

Answer 1

Neptune's distance from the sun is d₁ = 4.503 x 10⁹ km.
Mercury's distance from the sun is d₂ = 5.791 x 10⁷ km.

Calculate the number of times d₁ is greater than d₂.
$\frac{d_{1}}{d_{2}} = \frac{4.503 \times 10^{9}}{5.791 \times 10^{7}} = 77.75859$

Answer: 7.7759 x 10⁻¹ times