SOLUTION: The average distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles. Using the velocity of light, find an approximate value for the amount of time it takes a light ray to travel

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Question 229149: The average distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles. Using the velocity of light, find an approximate value for the amount of time it takes a light ray to travel from the sun to the earth. Please help and thank you.
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The average distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles.
Using the velocity of light, find an approximate value for the amount of time it
takes a light ray to travel from the sun to the earth.
:
Using accepted value for the speed of light, 186,000 mi/sec
:
93000000%2F186000 = 500 sec which is 8 min 20 sec