Question

Assume the diameter of the Earth (12,700 km) is scaled down to 1 cm and answer the following:
(a) How large is the Sun (diameter: 1.4×106 km) on this scale?
(b) How far away is the nearest star (distance: 4.24 light-years) on this scale?

Answer 1

Answer: (a) Diameter of sun is 1.4 million km

Therefore when it is scaled down it is 110 cm

(b) The distance to the nearest star from earth is 40 trillion km

therefore when it is scaled down it is 3149606299 cm which is equal to 31496 km on the same scale

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