SOLUTION: The radius of a bicycle wheel is 80 cm. During one trip this wheel rotated twenty-five thousand one hundred twenty-one times. To the nearest metre, how far did the bicycle travel o

Question 1107308: The radius of a bicycle wheel is 80 cm. During one trip this wheel rotated twenty-five thousand one hundred twenty-one times. To the nearest metre, how far did the bicycle travel on this trip? Express your answer in kilometres
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, ikleyn:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
r=80 cm, trip distance made the wheel rotate 25121 times.

One circumference is cm.

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Answer by ikleyn(52776) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Never saw so big bicycle wheels on a road.

I think, you may see it only in a circus . . .

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