Question

What is the distance between the earth and sun in light minutes?

Answer 1

About `8`.

Explanation:

[Copied from Yahoo! Answers.]

Light travels at `"299,792,458 m/s"`, so `"299.792.458 km/s"`.

The distance between Earth and the Sun is, on average, `"149,597,870.691 km"`.

Therefore, it takes light

`"149,597,870.691"/"299,792.458" = "499.004 seconds" = "8.316 minutes"`

to travel to Earth.