How many Earths fit inside the sun?

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Homework Statement



How many Earth's would fit inside the sun?

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I found the volume of the sun and the Earth (Using the sphere volume formula) and devided the sun's volume by the Earth and got 10^6...I was wondering whether this is the best solution
 
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The density of the most efficient sphere packing is

[tex]\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{12}} \approx 0.9069[/tex]