jayymora12 jayymora12
  • 21-09-2015
  • Physics
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The moon is 250,000 miles away. How many feet is it from earth

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AL2006
AL2006 AL2006
  • 21-09-2015

(250,000 miles) x (5,280 feet/mile) = 1,320,000,000 feet

                                                         ( 1.32 x 10⁹ )

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skyluke89
skyluke89 skyluke89
  • 18-07-2018

The conversion between miles and feet is:

[tex] 1 mi = 5280 ft [/tex]

So we can set up a proportion to find how many feet corresponds to 250000 miles:

[tex] 1 mi: 5280 ft = 250000 mi :x [/tex]

and solving it, we find

[tex] x=\frac{5280 ft \cdot 250000 mi}{1 mi} =1.32 \cdot 10^9 ft [/tex]

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