Question

Suppose a long metal wire girdles the equator and that the earth is girdled with a second wire that has a 16 feet clearance from the ground. If the circumference of the earth at the equator is 25000 miles, how much longer will the second wire be compared to the first

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Suppose a long metal wire girdles the equator and that the earth is girdled with a second wire that has a 16 feet clearance from the ground. If the circumference of the earth at the equator is 25000 miles, how much longer will the


19.7. second wire be compared to the first