You are going on a field trip in a school bus. A special detector placed on one of the bus's tires counts the number of rotations completed by the tire during the journey. The tire's diameter is 1 meter, and it made 8000 rotations during the trip. How far did the bus travel? Give your answer in terms of pi.

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Maribel Carson

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3 June, 20:58

You are going on a field trip in a school bus. A special detector placed on one of the bus's tires counts the number of rotations completed by the tire during the journey. The tire's diameter is 1 meter, and it made 8000 rotations during the trip. How far did the bus travel? Give your answer in terms of pi.

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Cesar Diaz · Answer 1

First you need to find the circumference of the circle because 1 revolution is 1 length of the circumference. The formula for the circumference is C=2πr or C=πd, if the diameter is 1 metre, then the circumference is π1 which is just π, and if it travelled 8000 rotations then that would mean it travelled 8000π, so it travelled 8000π in metres