The distance from the earth to the sun is approximately 90,000,000 miles, which can be written as 9 × 10a miles, where a = 7 . the distance from jupiter to the sun is approximately 500,000,000 miles, which can be written as 5 × 10b miles, where b = 8 . rounded to the nearest tenth, jupiter is about times further from the sun than the earth is from the sun.