If 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). Show your calculations.
What will be an ideal response?
40,000/360 = 111.1 km/degree = 1111 (approx. 1100 km)
24,900/360 = 69.2 mi./degree = 692 mi. (approx. 690 mi.)
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