SOLUTION: Leaving Chicago (42N, 88W) at 12pm and diving straight north at a speed of 65 miles per hour. About what time you will arrive a place located 47N and 88W? Explain your answer

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Question 884011: Leaving Chicago (42N, 88W) at 12pm and diving straight north at a speed of 65 miles per hour. About what time you will arrive a place located 47N and 88W? Explain your answer
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Leaving Chicago (42N, 88W) at 12pm and diving straight north at a speed of 65 miles per hour. About what time you will arrive a place located 47N and 88W? Explain your answer
You will have gone 5 degrees on a circumference of the earth.
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Assuming the circumference is 25000 miles you would have gone
(5/360)*25000 = 347.2 miles
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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