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Units And Measurement

Question
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When the earth is at apogee, then its distance from the sun is greater or less than 1 Astronomical unit?

Solution
At apogee, the earth is at a distance greater than 1astronomical unit.

[Note: Apogee, or more formally apsis, is the point, in an elliptical Earth orbit, of greatest distance from the Earth.]