ADDING AND SUBTRACTING WITH SCIENTIFIC NOTATION The table shows distances between different planets in our solar system. Use the table to help
you answer the questions that follow. Write all solutions in scientific notation
FROM
TO
AVERAGE (MILES)
"Rounded to rest hundred thousand miles
Mercury
Venus
30,700,000
Venus
Earth
26,000,000
Earth
Mars
48,300,000
Earth
Jupiter
390,400,000
Earth
Saturn
793,800,000
Saturn
Jupiter
403,400,000
Jupiter
Mars
342,000,000
1. How much farther is the Earth from
Saturn than it is from Jupiter?
4. Find the total distance from Mercury to
Earth.
2. Suppose you traveled from Saturn to
Jupiter, and then from Jupiter to Mars.
What would be the total distance?
5. Which is closer to Earth, Venus or
Mars? How much closer is it?
3. How much closer is Saturn to Jupiter
than it is to Earth?
6. How much farther is the Earth from
Saturn than it is from Mars?