Question

A ship's mast is sighted just over the horizon at 4 nautical miles. How far is this in kilometers? There are 1.609 kilometers in a mile and there are 6,076 feet in a nautical mile.

Answer 1

Answer:

7.4

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

This is 7.408 kilometres far.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

A ship's mast is sighted just over the horizon at 4 nautical miles.

Now, to find the distance in kilometers.

As, given ship's mast is sighted just over the horizon at 4 nautical miles.

So, by using conversion factor we get the nautical mile into kilometers:

1 nautical mile = 1.852 kilometer.

Thus, 4 nautical miles

= $4\times 1.852$

=  $7.408\ kilometers.$

Therefore, this is 7.408 kilometres far.