SOLUTION: Given that San Francisco, CA is located at 38N and 122W, and Athens, Greece is located at 38N and 24E. Assuming a direct flight from San Francisco to Athens (via the shortest rout

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Question 1135271: Given that San Francisco, CA is located at 38N and 122W, and Athens, Greece is located at 38N and 24E. Assuming a direct flight from San Francisco to Athens (via the shortest route). Name at least four regions/states/countries that the airplane may fly over.
Answer by ikleyn(52781)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Take a globe.

Take a saw.

Saw the globe across it center, in a way that the saw goes through San Francisco (CA) and Athens (Greece).

Those countries that will be cut in parts, are your answer.


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(Hope you understand that my answer is in a joking mode . . .


Do not try to saw a globe, in reality . . .

Use a pen instead of a saw . . .

and draw a great circle line across these cities.

    Definition.  Great circle line of a sphere is the cut of the sphere by a plane 
                 across its center and two given points at the sphere surface.)


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