If Jim could drive a Jetson's flying car at a coristant speed of 370 km/hr across oceans and space, approximately how long (in Millions of years, in 10^6 years)would he take to drive to a nearby star that is 12.3 light-years away? Use 9.461 x 10^12 km/light-year and 8766 hours per year (365.25 days).

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Given:

Jim could drive a Jetson's flying car at a constant speed of 370 km/hr

We will find the time could take to drive to a nearby star that is 12.3 light-years away

Given light year = 9.461 x 10^12 km

And the number of hours per year = 8766 hours

The time = Distance over the speed

so, the time =

[tex]\frac{12.3\times9.461\times10^{12}}{370}=3.145\times10^{11}hours[/tex]

Divide the answer by the number of hours per year

[tex]\frac{3.145\times10^{11}}{8766}=35.88\times10^6years=35.88\text{ }Millionsofyears[/tex]

So, the answer will be 35.88 Millions of years