Question

about how many times greater is the distance from the sun to proxima centuries compared to the distance from sun to mercury? express your answer in scientific notation,using a whole number time a power of 101.4 x 10 x ^60.7 x 10 x ^66.9 x 10^56.9 x 10^7

Answer 1

Since we have that the distance from the Sun to Mercury is 3.6*10^7 and the distance from the sun to Proxima Centauri is 5.9*10^12, we proceed as follows:

$f=\frac{5.9\cdot10^{12}}{3.6\cdot10^7}\Rightarrow f=\frac{1475000}{9}\Rightarrow f\approx163888.9$

From this, we have that the distance from the Sun to Proxima Centauri is about 163889 times greater than that from the Sun to Mercury.