Multiple choice general knowledge

The sunrays reached at the earth in

  1. 7 minutes & 2 seconds

  2. 5 minutes & 7 seconds

  3. 8 minutes & 3 seconds

  4. 9 minutes & 8 seconds
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Explanation

Sunlight takes approximately 8 minutes and 3 seconds to travel from the Sun to Earth. This is calculated by dividing the average Earth-Sun distance (about 93 million miles or 150 million km) by the speed of light (about 186,000 miles or 300,000 km per second).

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