Sam's Earth Science class is about to walk the planets. What does that mean? Well, his teacher has tied a large helium balloon outside and students will pace off the distance to each planet, using this scale as a guide. Sam's teacher has told the class to use the idea of a "pace" as a unit of measure for the activity. A pace is two steps-one with each foot. One pace is about 1 meter. The students predicted how many paces it would take to reach each planet. It takes 6 paces to reach Mercury and Pluto was 592 paces from the start. When they had completed the activity, one student had stopped at 287 paces. What planet did that student represent?

Question

Sam's Earth Science class is about to walk the planets. What does that mean? Well, his teacher has tied a large helium balloon outside and students will pace off the distance to each planet, using this scale as a guide. Sam's teacher has told the class to use the idea of a "pace" as a unit of measure for the activity. A pace is two steps-one with each foot. One pace is about 1 meter. The students predicted how many paces it would take to reach each planet. It takes 6 paces to reach Mercury and Pluto was 592 paces from the start. When they had completed the activity, one student had stopped at 287 paces. What planet did that student represent?

Hint: Estimate using the value of Pluto at 592 paces to locate the planet at 287 paces.

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Responses

Jupiter
Jupiter

Uranus
Uranus

Saturn
Saturn

Neptune