SOLUTION: Here is a tiring problem. The diameter of a car tire is approximately 60 centimeters. The warranty is good for 70,000 km. About how many revolutions will the tire make before th

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: Here is a tiring problem. The diameter of a car tire is approximately 60 centimeters. The warranty is good for 70,000 km. About how many revolutions will the tire make before the warranty is up? More than a million? A billion? This question is from textbook discovering geometry- an investigative approach

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Here is a tiring problem. The diameter of a car tire is approximately 60 centimeters. The warranty is good for 70,000 km. About how many revolutions will the tire make before the warranty is up? More than a million? A billion
Find the circum of the tire: C = pi*60 = 188.5 cm, or write it 1.885(10^2)
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Theres 100,000 cm in 1 km, call it 10^5 cm
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70000 is 7(10^4)
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7(10^4) * (10^5) = 7(10^9) cm in 70,000 km
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= 3.71(10^7) which is 37.1 million
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