Question

Saturn is 8.867 × 108 miles away from the Sun. Uranus is 1.787 × 109 miles away from the Sun. Approximately how many times farther is Uranus from the Sun than Saturn is?

Answer 1

first, you find the actual distances of each planet.

Saturn: 8.867 x 108 = 957.636

Uranus: 1.787 x 109 = 194.783

To find how many times farther Uranus is from the sun than Saturn is, you divide the two.

957.636/194.783 = 4.9

Uranus is approximately 5 times farther from the sun than Saturn.