Answer:
20 times further
Step-by-step explanation:
Neptune is about 2,700,000,000 miles from Earth.
Mercury is about 135,000,000 miles from Earth.
Write in scientific notation to help solve. A number is written in scientific notation when a number between 1 and 10 is multiplied by a power of 10. The power is the number of decimal places you move.
2,700,000,000 = 2.7 x [tex]10^{9}[/tex]
135,000,000 = 1.35 x [tex]10^{8}[/tex]
2)
[tex]\frac{Neptune}{Mercury} = \frac{2.7 * 10^{9} }{1.35*10^{8} }[/tex]
You can see there is only one extra 0 on top, the rest will cancel so you're left with:
[tex]\frac{27}{1.35} = 20[/tex]
It's 20x farther to Neptune from Earth, than it is to Mercury from Earth.
