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Help with this maths question?

Asked by itsjustcruel (387points) November 29th, 2011

I don’t want the answer, I would just like to know how I go about working this out as I have forgotten:
Billy likes to go cycling, his bike wheels have a diameter of 90cm.
Billy counts the number of revelations the wheel makes. It makes 140 revolutions, how far has Billy cycled? Give your answer to the nearest metre.

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In one rotation, he travels a distance equal to the circumference of his wheel. Do you know how to calculate circumference given the information you have?

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@Mariah Yes thanks, I kept forgetting that part :)

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Mariah's avatar

Okay, cool! It helps if you picture the wheels having paint on them and leaving a line behind him. You can picture better the relationship between circumference and distance traveled that way.

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Billy likes to go cycling, his bike wheels have a diameter of 90cm.
Billy counts the number of revelations the wheel makes. It makes 140 revolutions, how far has Billy cycled? Give your answer to the nearest metre

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