Earth’s distance from the sun is 1.496 x 10 to the power of 8km. Saturns distance from the sun is 1.4246 x 10 to the power of 9km. How many times farther from the sun is Saturn? Explain how you arrived at you answer. Make it look like an 8 th grader solved the questions above.
To find out how many times farther Saturn is from the sun compared to Earth, we need to divide Saturn's distance from the sun by Earth's distance from the sun.
Saturn's distance from the sun is 1.4246 x 10 to the power of 9 km, and Earth's distance from the sun is 1.496 x 10 to the power of 8 km.
To divide these two values, we can write them in scientific notation and manipulate the exponents.
1.4246 x 10^9 km / 1.496 x 10^8 km
One way to calculate this as an 8th grader is to divide the numbers before the exponents and then subtract the exponents:
1.4246 / 1.496 = 0.9514
10^9 / 10^8 = 10^(9-8) = 10^1 = 10
So, Saturn is approximately 0.9514 times farther from the sun compared to Earth. This means that Saturn is approximately one-tenth farther from the sun than Earth.