The distance of planet mercury from the sun is approximately 5.8 ⋅ 107  kilometers, and the distance of earth from the sun is 1.5 ⋅ 108  kilometers. about how many more kilometers is the distance of earth from the sun than the distance of mercury from the sun?

i honestly dont know

let's first notice, the center of the hyperbola is at the origin, since the focus points are equidistantly 3 units away from the origin, that also means that the distance "c" from the center to either focus is 3.

it should also be notable that, the traverse axis for this hyperbola is vertical, or namely over the y-axis and therefore, the positive fraction will be the one with y-variable.

the traverse "a" component or distance from the center to either vertex is not 2, is more than 2, so we can safely put it at √5 ≈ 2.24.