pluto is considered to be a dwarf planet in our Solar system. pluto is about 3.6 x 10^9 miles from the sun. Mercury is about 3.6 x 10^7 miles from the sun. about how many times farther from the sun is pluto than mercury? show your work.
a 1 x 10^15
b 1 x 10^0
c 1 x 10^2
d 1 x 10^-2
To find out how many times farther Pluto is from the Sun compared to Mercury, we need to divide the distance of Pluto from the Sun by the distance of Mercury from the Sun.
Pluto's distance from the Sun: 3.6 x 10^9 miles
Mercury's distance from the Sun: 3.6 x 10^7 miles
Pluto's distance / Mercury's distance = (3.6 x 10^9) / (3.6 x 10^7)
We can simplify this by dividing the coefficients and subtracting the exponents:
(3.6 / 3.6) x (10^9 / 10^7) = 1 x 10^(9 - 7) = 1 x 10^2
Therefore, Pluto is about 100 times farther from the Sun than Mercury.
The answer is c) 1 x 10^2.