You are going on a field trip in a school bus. A special detector placed on one of the bus's tires counts the number of rotation

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You are going on a field trip in a school bus. A special detector placed on one of the bus's tires counts the number of rotation

s completed by the tire during the journey. The tire's diameter is 1 meter, and it made 8000 rotations during the trip.
How far did the bus travel?
Give your answer in terms of pi.

Mathematics

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professor190 [17] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-10T12:40:27+03:00

professor190 [17]3 years ago

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Think Winnie.

The distance a wheel traveled can be determined by using the circumference. The circumference of the wheel is pi meters. (formula is pi * diameter)

So if there were 8000 rotations, then the bus traveled 8000pi meters.