Asked by Avery Williams

Suppose a student develops a scale model of the planets. Which two planets should be the closest in diameter on the model?
Mercury's Diameter (km): 4,800
Venus's Diameter (km): 12,100
Earth's Diameter (km): 12,800
Mars's Diameter (km): 6,700
Jupiter's Diameter (km): 143,000
Saturn's Diameter (km): 120,000
Uranus's Diameter (km): 51,100
Neptune's Diameter (km): 50,000

A. Uranus and Saturn
B. Mercury and Neptune
C. Earth and Venus
D. Mars and Jupiter

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
C. Earth and Venus

Their diameters are 12,800 km (Earth) and 12,100 km (Venus), a difference of only 700 km, which is far smaller than the differences for the other pairs.