Explanation:
What we need to do here is to take the ratio of the distances of the planets to determine how much farther Neptune is from the sun compared to Mercury:
[tex]\dfrac{D_N}{D_M} = \dfrac{4.503×10^9\:\text{km}}{5.791×10^7\:\text{km}} = 7.776×10^1[/tex]
This means that Neptune is 77.76 times farther from the sun than Mercury is.
