Monday, April 2, 2007

The Problem Book-16


16.) Oue Earth travels one thousand thirty-seven and one-third miles per hour, and she travels around the Sun in three sixty-five and one-fourth days. How many miles does it travel in three hundred sixty-five and one-fourth days?

3 comments:

Unknown said...

If the earth travels at the above rate of 1,037 1/3 per hour in one day you have a total sum of our earth's equator which is 24,896 miles. If you multiply that by the number of days it takes to rotate around the sun in one year the earth will have traveled approx. 9,087,040 miles.

Unknown said...

Thanks Zahir can you show how you got to your conclusion.

Unknown said...

Thanks Zahir can you show how you got to your conclusion.