SOLUTION: A street that is 264m long is covered in snow. City workers are using a snow plow to clear the street. A tire on the snowplow has to turn 44 times in traveling the length of the st

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Question 630387: A street that is 264m long is covered in snow. City workers are using a snow plow to clear the street. A tire on the snowplow has to turn 44 times in traveling the length of the street. What is the diameter of the tire? Use the value 3.14 for pi. Round your answer to the nearest tenth. Do not round any intermediate steps.
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A street that is 264m long is covered in snow.
City workers are using a snow plow to clear the street.
A tire on the snowplow has to turn 44 times in traveling the length of the street.
What is the diameter of the tire? Use the value 3.14 for pi. Round your answer to the nearest tenth. Do not round any intermediate steps.
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Find the circumference of the tire: 264%2F44 = 6 meters
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Find the diameter: 6%2F3.14 = 1.9 meters