document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=256902>Question 256902</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Hello I am needing some guidance for this problem.  <BR>\n" );
document.write( "The fastest plane goes 4400 km/hour.  If it were to travel to the sun from earth, distance being 149.6 million km how long would this take? Convert into days and years. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I took the distance 149.6 million km and divided it by the speed 4400 km and this totaled 34,000 hours. Which I think is wrong!\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "This would then be 7.8 years (34,000/4,380 (hr. per year) and 2,833.4 days.  \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I think that this is totally wrong please let me know how to correctly figure this out.  Or maybe I am smarter then I thought I was.  We will see.  <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "</I><HR><TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B><A HREF=http://www.algebra.com/>Algebra.Com's</A> Answer #188959 by </B><A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=Fombitz><B>Fombitz(32388)</B></A><img src=\"/images/stars/stars-13.gif\" alt=\"\" >&nbsp;<A HREF=/tutors/aboutme.mpl?userid=Fombitz><IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/images/aboutme-small.gif BORDER=0 alt=\"About Me\" VALIGN=MIDDLE></A>&nbsp;<IMG SRC=http://www.algebra.com/cgi-bin/show-face.mpl?user=Fombitz><BR>You can <A HREF=\"/cgi-bin/embed-solution.mpl?show=1&solution=188959\">put this solution on YOUR website!</A><BR><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> 149600000/4400=34000 hours<BR>\n" );
document.write( "34000 is right, your conversion to days is off.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "24 hours in 1 day. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "365 days in 1 year. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "24(365)=8760 hours in 1 year. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "34000 hours/(24 hrs/day)=1416 days.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "34000 hours/(8760 hrs/day)=3 years 321 days<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "That's the problem with space travel, everything is so far away and even current unmanned spacecraft only travel at about 20 km/s or 72000 km/h. Even at that high speed it would take<BR>\n" );
document.write( "149600000/72000= 2077 hours=87 days to reach the target. \r<BR>\n" );
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