October 24, 2017
Problem of the Week
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Those who saw the total eclipse of the sun this past summer reported that the moon perfectly covered the sun- that they have the same apparent size. If the moon was 230,000 miles away from earth at that time while the sun was 92,000,000 miles away, how many thousand miles is the diameter of the sun given that the diameter of the moon is 2,100 miles?
