SOLUTION: You want to travel to the Moon by bicycle and let's suppose that there was a flat road all the way. Let's use a distance to the Moon of 240,000 miles. If you rode 12 hours/day, how

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Question 1123510: You want to travel to the Moon by bicycle and let's suppose that there was a flat road all the way. Let's use a distance to the Moon of 240,000 miles. If you rode 12 hours/day, how many years would it take for you to get to the Moon? You'll need to make an estimate of one final piece of information. For you answer, give no more than 2 significant digits.
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, josgarithmetic:
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source):
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What a strange presentation of the problem. You don't give a speed; and you say we have to "make an estimate of one final piece of information".

Is the speed the thing we are to estimate?

Okay, I'll make it easy. I'll estimate a speed of 20,000 miles per hour; then it will take 1 day of riding (12 hours) for the trip.

It's rather pointless to tell us to use no more than 2 significant digits if you don't tell us the speed.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let cycle traveling rate be r miles per hour.

You want to to 240000 miles and travel for 12 hours per day.

, number of years, in terms of r.

Estimate the result any way you like.
, years