SOLUTION: How many meters does a wheel with a diameter of 18cm travel after six revolutions?

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Question 177962: How many meters does a wheel with a diameter of 18cm travel after six revolutions?
Answer by Mathtut(3670)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
so the we are looking for the circumference which is the perimeter of the circle
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using a value of 3.14 for
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so the distance it travels on 6 revolutions would be
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56.52(6)=339.12cm
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now the are asking how many meters and we know that 1 meter =100cm
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so meters traveled

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