Several companies manufacture large world globes for display in museums, corporate lobbies, and science exhibit halls. If such a globe featured a diameter of 4 m (13 ft), what is the scale of this globe expressed as a representative fraction? (Show your work.) (Hint: Earth’s equatorial diameter = 12,756 km [7926 miles].)
What will be an ideal response?
1:3,189,000 (4m diameter of globe, 12,756 km Earth diameter; 12,756 km / 4 m 5 3,189,000 m).
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