How do I begin this problem for geometry?
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Well, how long will it take you to drive 135 miles at 55mph?
at 55 mph, you're doing 55 miles every hour, so we can simply get the quotient of 135/55 and that's how many hours it'll take you to drive 135 miles at that speed.
so, it takes you that long, however, from 3:15 to 5:00pm there are only 45mins + 60mins or 1hr and 45 minutes, namely 1¾ hr.
so 2hrs and 27 minutes is much later than 1¾ hr, so, no dice, you can't arrive at 5pm, actually you'll arrive around 5:42pm.
at 55 mph, you're doing 55 miles every hour, so we can simply get the quotient of 135/55 and that's how many hours it'll take you to drive 135 miles at that speed.
so, it takes you that long, however, from 3:15 to 5:00pm there are only 45mins + 60mins or 1hr and 45 minutes, namely 1¾ hr.
so 2hrs and 27 minutes is much later than 1¾ hr, so, no dice, you can't arrive at 5pm, actually you'll arrive around 5:42pm.
Answer:
Radius of the Earth is 3978.8 Miles
Circumference of the Earth is 25000 Miles
Step-by-step explanation:
The angle of the sun shone at an angle of 7.2° to the zenith
This means that the angle of the sector of the circle is 7.2° (θ)
S = Length of the sector of the circle = 500 miles
r = radius of earth
Converting 7.2° to radians
∴ Radius of the Earth is 3978.8 Miles
∴ Circumference of the Earth is 25000 Miles
