It takes approximately ______ minutes for sunlight to reach the Earth.
We know that,
Earth-Sun distance = 1.496 x 108m
Velocity of light reaching Earth = 3 x 108 m/s
Time taken by light to reach earth is
=(Earth-sun distance)/(Velocity of light)
= (1.496 x 10^8 m)/(3 x 10^8 m/s)
= 8.31 minutes.
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