How many minutes are required for sunlight to travel from the Sun to Mars? (Assume the Sun is 2.28 x 108 kilometers from Mars and sunlight travels at 2.99 x 105 kilometers per second. )

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We can use the formula distance = speed x time to solve the problem.

distance = 2.28 x 10^8 km
speed = 2.99 x 10^5 km/s

time = distance / speed
time = (2.28 x 10^8) / (2.99 x 10^5)
time = 761.5 seconds
time ≈ 12.7 minutes

Therefore, it takes approximately 12.7 minutes for sunlight to travel from the Sun to Mars. The correct answer is C.

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