Problema Solution
It takes 3 days for a space vehicle to travel from the earth to the moon. How long would it take the same vehicle traveling at the same speed to travel to neptune? closet distance from the earth to the moon is 240,000 miles, neptune is 2,700,000,000 miles. How many days will it take to reach neptune?
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Speed of space vehicle = 240,000/3 = 80,000 miles/day
Distance to Neptune = 2,700,000,000 miles
Time = Distance/Speed = 2,700,000,000/80000 = 3375 days [Ans.]