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Ondrea could drive a Jetson's flying car at a constant speed of 540.0 km/hr across oceans and space, approximately how long woul

d she take to drive from the Sun to Pluto in years? (Assume Pluto is at its average distance of 5.9 × 109 km from the Sun)

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Tcecarenko [31]4 years ago

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Answer:

The time taken in years is $x = 125 \ years$

Explanation:

From the question we are told that

The speed is $v = 540.00 \ km /hr = \frac{540 *1000}{3600} = 150\ m/s$

The distance from the sun to Pluto is $d = 5.9*10^{9} \ k m = 5.9*10^9 * 1000 = 5.9*10^{12} \ m$

Generally the time taken is mathematically represented as

$t = \frac{d}{v}$

=> $t = \frac{5.9*10^{11}}{150}$

=> $t = 3.933*10^{9}$

Converting to years

$1 year \to 3.154*10^7 \ s$

$x \ years \to 3.933*10^{9}$

=> $x = \frac{ 3.933*10^{9} * 1 }{ 3.154 *10^7}$

=> $x = 125 \ years$

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