If light takes 8 minutes to travel from the sun to Earth and over 4 hours to travel from the sun to the planet Neptune, what is the distance from the sun to Neptune?
a. 5 AU
b. 30 AU
c. 30 ly
d. 5 ly
e. 0.6 ly
B
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