SOLUTION: My car tire has a diameter of 20 inches. How many times can I expect that tire to rotate if I drive 1 mile?

Question 837804: My car tire has a diameter of 20 inches. How many times can I expect that tire to rotate if I drive 1 mile?
Answer by LinnW(1048) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A tire that has diameter of 20 has circumference =
So is the distance traveled with one tire revolution.
1 mile / will give us the number of rotations.
To work this we need to convert 1 mile to inches.
Since one mile is 5280 ft, one mile = 5280 * 12 inches
1 mile = 63360
The number of rotations = =
approximately 1008.4057 rotations
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