15. Sometimes you can see the moon during the daytime. The moon looks the same size as the sun, but the moon is 1/400 the size of the sun. Which of these best shows the size of the moon relative to the sun? (2006 test - question 40)

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15. Sometimes you can see the moon during the daytime. The moon looks the same size as the sun, but the moon is 1/400 the size of the sun. Which of these best shows the size of the moon relative to the sun? (2006 test - question 40)

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The size of the moon relative to the sun is

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Answer 2

## Step 1The problem states that the moon is 1/400 the size of the sun. This means that if we consider the sun as a whole, or 1, the moon would be 1/400 of that. ## Step 2This comparison is not about how the sun and moon appear from our perspective on Earth, but about their actual sizes.## Step 3Therefore, the size of the moon relative to the sun is 1/400.

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15. Sometimes you can see the moon during the daytime. The moon looks the same size as the sun, but the moon is 1/400 the size of the sun. Which of these best shows the size of the moon relative to the sun? (2006 test - question 40)

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