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Question
The distance between the Sun and the Earth is 1.496 × 108 km and distance between the Earth and the Moon is 3.84 × 108 m. During solar eclipse the Moon comes in between the Earth and the Sun. What is distance between the Moon and the Sun at that particular time?
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Solution
The distance between the Sun and the Earth is 1.496 × 108 km
= 1.496 × 108 × 103 m
= 1496 × 108 m
The distance between the Earth and the Moon is 3.84 × 108 m.
The distance between the Moon and the Sun at particular time (solar eclipse)
= (1496 × 108 – 3.84 × 108) m
= (1496 – 3.84) × 108 m
= 1492.16 × 108 m
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