Choose two of the distances of planets from the sun and divide them. Show your work.
Mercury: 5.79 x 10^8
Neptune: 4.497 x 10^8
Let's choose the distances of Mercury and Neptune from the sun:
Mercury: 5.79 x 10^8
Neptune: 4.497 x 10^8
To divide these two distances, we need to perform the following calculation:
(5.79 x 10^8) / (4.497 x 10^8)
To divide numbers in scientific notation, we subtract the exponents and divide the coefficients:
(5.79 / 4.497) x 10^(8 - 8)
Performing the division:
= 1.288 x 10^0
Since any number raised to the power of 0 is equal to 1, we simplify our result to:
= 1.288
Therefore, the division of the distances of Mercury and Neptune from the sun is approximately 1.288.