What is the distance (in minutes) between the Sun and the Earth, in terms of light years?
8.311
Time taken by light = distance ÷ speed of light
Average Sun-Earth distance = about 1.496 × 108 km
Speed of light = about 2.998 × 105 km/s
Time = 1.496 × 108 ÷ 2.998 × 105 s
= about 499 s
= 499 ÷ 60 min
= about 8.3 min
So the Sun is roughly 8.3 light-minutes from the Earth; the sunlight we see left the Sun about 8 minutes 20 seconds earlier. The nearest given value is 8.311.
Check: 8.311 × 60 ≈ 499 s, and 499 s × 2.998 × 105 km/s ≈ 1.5 × 108 km, which is 1 astronomical unit.
Hence, 8.311.
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