SOLUTION: The length of the minute hand on the clock is 7 inches. What is the most reasonable measure of the distance that the tip of the minute hand travels in one hour?
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Question 283591: The length of the minute hand on the clock is 7 inches. What is the most reasonable measure of the distance that the tip of the minute hand travels in one hour? Found 2 solutions by oberobic, user_dude2008:Answer by oberobic(2304) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The minute hand describes a circle as it sweeps across the traditional analog clock face.
The radius of the circle is 7 inches.
The circumference of the circle is the pi*diameter.
The diameter = 2*radius.
C = 2*7*pi
C = 43.98222972 inches
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I cannot say what your teacher would consider "the most reasonable measure."
Perhaps 44 inches is "the most reasonable measure?"
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Done.
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