SOLUTION: A line from the sun to the Earth sweeps out an angle of how many radians in 73 days. What is the linear speed of the Earth moving around the sun, assuming it makes a circular orb

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Question 1077774: A line from the sun to the Earth sweeps out an angle of how many radians in 73 days.
What is the linear speed of the Earth moving around the sun, assuming it makes a circular orbit and that the sun is 93 miles away?
Please help me with this. Thanks. m,
Found 2 solutions by addingup, ikleyn:
Answer by addingup(3677) About Me  (Show Source):
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it's 93 MILLION miles away. To put this in perspective, if you could leave home on your own private jet and go around the world, ending back at home, you would have traveled a measly 24,901 miles. You'd have to go around the world 373 times to cover the distance from here to the sum.

Answer by ikleyn(52794) About Me  (Show Source):
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The tutor "addingup" made a mistake in his estimation. 

Concretely, the mistake in this phrase:

    "You'd have to go around the world 373 times to cover the distance from here to the sum."


The correct statement is: 

    "You'd have to go around the world 3734.8 times to cover the distance from here to the sum."