Distance around the earth

Question

Find distance that the earth travels in one day in its path around the sun. Assume a year has 364 days and the path around the sun is a circle of radius 93 million miles.

Comments

Assume there are 365 days. What's the answer then

Answer 1

The earth circumference of a circle with the radius is million miles.

Find the distance the earth travels in one day in its path around the sun.

Circumference is .

Substitute in .



The earth travel of this distance in a day

The earth travels million miles/day.

Comments

Just replace the earth travel by of this distance in a day.

Therefore, the earth travels million miles/day.