Question

Question

The distance from Venus to the sun is about 67,000,000 miles. The distance from Earth to the sun is about 2.6×107
farther. What is the distance from Earth to the sun? Write your answer in scientific notation to 1 decimal place.(1 point)

Answer 1

To find the distance from Earth to the sun, we can add the distance from Venus to the sun and the additional distance from Venus to Earth.

1. Distance from Venus to the sun = 67,000,000 miles (which can be written as \( 6.7 \times 10^7 \) miles in scientific notation).

2. The additional distance from Venus to Earth is \( 2.6 \times 10^7 \) miles.

Now, we add the two distances together:

\[ 6.7 \times 10^7 + 2.6 \times 10^7 = (6.7 + 2.6) \times 10^7 = 9.3 \times 10^7 \text{ miles} \]

Thus, the distance from Earth to the sun is:

\[ \boxed{9.3 \times 10^7} \text{ miles} \]