SOLUTION: Use the fact that the radius of Earth is 3960 feet and 1 mile is 5280 feet to answer the following question:
From the top of a 22-ft tower on a submarine, a person can see appro
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Question 852031: Use the fact that the radius of Earth is 3960 feet and 1 mile is 5280 feet to answer the following question:
From the top of a 22-ft tower on a submarine, a person can see approximately ____ miles? Please round to the nearest hundredth.
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Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can see the stars, trillions of miles away.
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If you mean to the horizon,
r = 3960*5280 = 2090800 feet (Earth's radius)
hypotenuse = 20908822 feet
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Distance to horizon =
=~ 30331 feet
=~ 5.74 miles
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