I REALLY NEED YOUR HELP !!!!!!! Suppose it takes 3 days for a space vehicle to travel from Earth to the moon. About how long would it take the same vehichle traveling at the same speed to reach Venus?
Closest Distance From Earth to:
Moon 240,000mi
Venus 26,000,000mi
the space vehicle would take about ----days to reach Venus .
(Round to the nearest whole number. Use scientific notation. Use multiplication symbol in the math.
Why not just set up a proportion.
(3days/240,000 miles) = (?days/26,000,000 miles)
To calculate approximately how long it would take for the space vehicle to reach Venus, we can use the concept of proportions.
First, we need to find the ratio between the distances of the Moon and Venus from Earth. We can do this by dividing the distance to Venus (26,000,000 mi) by the distance to the Moon (240,000 mi):
26,000,000 mi / 240,000 mi = 108.33
Now, we can set up a proportion between the time taken to travel to the Moon (3 days) and the unknown time it would take to travel to Venus:
3 days / x days = 108.33
To find the value of x (the time taken to reach Venus), we can solve for x by cross-multiplying:
3 days * 108.33 = x days
x ≈ 324.99 days
Since we're asked to round to the nearest whole number, the space vehicle would take approximately 325 days to reach Venus at the same speed.