SOLUTION: Billy likes to go cycling. His bike has wheels of diameter 75 cm. He has a counter on his bike which counts the number of revolutions the wheels make. One day the counter shows 230

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Question 1187747: Billy likes to go cycling. His bike has wheels of diameter 75 cm. He has a counter on his bike which counts the number of revolutions the wheels make. One day the counter shows 230 revolutions.
How far has billy cycled? Give your answer to the nearest metre
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(1) Diameter (as given, in cm) times pi to get the circumference (the number of cm traveled in 1 revolution)
(2) Multiply by 230 to find the number of cm traveled in 230 revolutions
(3) Convert the answer to meters (1m = 100cm) and round to the nearest whole number.