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Neptune’s average distance from the Sun is 4.503 × 109 km. Mercury’s average distance from the Sun is 5.791 × 107 km. About how many times f
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Neptune’s average distance from the Sun is 4.503 × 109 km. Mercury’s average distance from the Sun is 5.791 × 107 km. About how many times farther from the Sun is Neptune than Mercury
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Step-by-step explanation:
The ratio of distances is …
Neptune distance / Mercury distance = (4.503×10^9)/(5.791×10^7)
= 450.3/5.791 = 77.76 . . . . cancelling factors of 10^7
Neptune is about 77.76 times as far from the Sun as Mercury is.