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  • Jan 10, 2009, 05:06 PM
    beauty lux
    In the last one.the first thing I did was convert inches to miles.

    So would I take 1.204*10 to the 24/93,000,000/63360?

    Or because the question is asking for me to calculate the distance there and back.would I take 93million times 2?

    Or am I overthinking?
  • Jan 10, 2009, 05:11 PM
    Capuchin

    You do need to multiply it by 2, but 63360 is your conversion from inches to miles.

    So 1.204*10 to the 24 is the length of your chain in inches
    1.204*10 to the 24/63360 is the length of your chain in miles and
    1.204*10 to the 24/63360/25000 is the number of times the chain goes aroudn the earth.

    This should be very easy to alter for your current question.
  • Jan 10, 2009, 05:16 PM
    beauty lux

    okay. So the equation would look like this.

    1.204/63360/186000000 would be the equation?
  • Jan 10, 2009, 05:31 PM
    Capuchin
    yeah but don't forget your 10^24
  • Jan 10, 2009, 05:34 PM
    beauty lux
    Okay.
    So the answer I got was 1.021641143*10 to the 11th
  • Jan 10, 2009, 05:45 PM
    Capuchin

    Sounds about right.

    I think the point your teacher is trying to get across is htat a mole is a large number :)
  • Jan 10, 2009, 05:47 PM
    beauty lux
    Thanks a bunch..

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