Question

Mike is standing at 40* degree north latitude and Tim is standing at 12* degree north latitude. Who is closer to the equator?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Tim is closer to equator

Explanation:

Mike is standing at 40* degree north latitude and Tim is standing at 12* degree north latitude. Who is closer to the equator?​

An equator is an imaginary line divides the planet into a Northern Hemisphere and a Southern Hemisphere. The Earth is widest at its Equator.

0° North latitude is at equator

as we will will going toward northern hemisphere

northern latitude will keep increasing

so 12° North latitude will come before 40° north latitude

so 12° North latitude is closer to Equator

Hence Tim is closer to equator

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

Here we get to see that Tim is standing at 12 degrees north of the latitude where as Mike is standing at a 40 degrees to the north of latitude. In order to understand who is standing close to the equator we need to first understand how it all works for that matter.

Since equator is the largest kind of latitude measuring at 0 degrees we get to see that Tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn are at north and south respectively. Therefore Tim is standing closer to equator at 12 degrees.