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lord [1]
4 years ago
12

A Sense of Proportion: Earth orbits 1 AU from the Sun, and the Oort Cloud extends from about 10,000 to 100,000 AU from the Sun.

If you represent Earth's orbit around the Sun with a paper plate 4 inches in radius, how far away will the inner edge of the Oort Cloud be? How far away will the outer edge of the Oort Cloud be? Express your answers in miles.
Geography
1 answer:
zysi [14]4 years ago
3 0

Answer: 6.313 miles

Explanation:

The distance is calculated by Simple Rule of Three:

x = \frac{100000 AU}{1 AU}\cdot 4 in \cdot (\frac{1 mi}{63360 in}) \\x = 6.313 mi

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