Question

The distance from Mars to the Sun is 1.416×10^8 miles. The distance from Earth to the Sun is 9.296×10^7 miles. How many more miles is the distance from Mars to the Sun than the distance from Earth to the Sun?

Answer 1

Answer:

$4.864*10^7\ miles$

or

$48,640,000\ miles$

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

To determine how many more miles is the distance from Mars to the Sun than the distance from Earth to the Sun, subtract the distance from Earth to the Sun from the distance from Mars to the Sun

Let

x ----> the distance from Mars to the Sun in miles

y ----> the distance from Earth to the Sun in miles

Find out

$(x-y)$

we have

$x=1.416*10^8\ miles$

$y=9.296*10^7\ miles$

we need to adjust the powers of 10 in the 2 numbers so that they have the same index

Multiply  the distance from Earth to the Sun by 10/10

$y=9.296*10^7(\frac{10}{10})=0.9296*10^8\ miles$

Find out the difference

$(x-y)=1.416*10^8\ miles-0.9296*10^8\ miles=0.4864*10^8\ miles$

Multiply by 10/10

$0.4864*10^8(\frac{10}{10})=4.864*10^7\ miles$