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How far would the sun be?

If the earth were the size of a tennis ball (2.5 inches)...
You need to set this up in a ratio to solve it I just don't know how.
The Earth is 8000 miles across. The sun is 861,000 miles in diameter.
The average distance between the sun and earth now is 93 million miles.

2.5 inches / 8000 miles = x inches / 93,000, 000 miles

8000x = 2.5 * 93,000,000

x = (2.5 * 93,000,000) / 8000

x = 29,062.5 inches

a little less than 1/2 mile away

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