TuvIf you start at the equator and travel to 10° N, approximately how many kilometers (or miles) north of the equator will you be? Take the circumference of Earth to be 40,000 kilometers (24,900 miles).

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Keenan Mccullough

27 January, 17:49

TuvIf you start at the equator and travel to 10° N, approximately how many kilometers (or miles) north of the equator will you be? Take the circumference of Earth to be 40,000 kilometers (24,900 miles).

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Delaney Black · Answer 1

We shall divide the circumference into 360. That will give us the value of distance covered for each degree along latitude.

1°N = 40000 / 360

= 111.11 km

10° N = 111.11 x 10

= 1111.11 km