Calculate the time it would take for an ideally situated rubber duck to make a loop of the North Atlantic. Now calculate the time it would take for an ideally situated rubber duck to make a loop of the North Pacific. Why the difference?

How fast is the rubber duck going, critical to the answer actually.

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Originally Posted by tickle

how fast is the rubber duck going, critical to the answer actually.

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It does not say, that's why I don't know how to answer it.

The North Atlantic and North Pacific both have large circular current systems. Do you have any data on these in your textbook perhaps?