The earth takes one year to revolve around the sun at 1 a. u. distance (an astronomical unitv=93,000,000 miles) if a planet were 4 a. u. from the sun, how many years would it take to make 1 orbit? a) 8 b) 64

To solve this we are going to use Kepler's third law: 
where
is the period of revolution of the first object
is the period of revolution of the second object
is the distance from the sun to the first object
is the distance from the sun to the second object 

We can infer that our first object is the Earth, Since it takes one year to revolve around the sun, its period of revolution is 1 year; therefore: . We also know that the distance from the Sun to the Earth is 1 AU, so .
Similarly, we can infer that our second object is the other planet. Since we know that the planet is 4 AU from the sun, . 
Lets replace the values in our formula to find :








We can conclude that the period of revolution of the planted located 4 AU form the Sun is 8 years; therefore, the correct answer is A) 8.

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