Earth’s distance from the sun is 1.496 x 108 km. Saturn’s distance from the sun is 1.4246 x 109 km. How many times further from the sun is Saturn? Explain how you arrived at your answer.
To find out how many times further Saturn is from the sun compared to Earth, we need to divide Saturn's distance from the sun by Earth's distance.
Saturn's distance from the sun is 1.4246 x 10^9 km.
Earth's distance from the sun is 1.496 x 10^8 km.
Dividing Saturn's distance by Earth's distance gives us:
(1.4246 x 10^9 km) / (1.496 x 10^8 km) = 9.521
Therefore, Saturn is approximately 9.521 times further from the sun than Earth.
To arrive at this answer, we simply divided Saturn's distance by Earth's distance.