A person on the earth is looking up at the sun, which is 92,900,000 miles away. The angle spanned by the sun at the person's eye is approximately 0.5 degrees. Find an estimate for the diameter of the sun?

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Answer 1 · 2017-11-06T12:01:48

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#tan(0.5)= a/(92,900,000)=> a =(92900000)tan(0.5)~~810726#miles.

The Sun's actual Diameter#~~ 864,938# miles.