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The circumference of an NBA-approved basketball is 29.6 in. Given that the radius of Earth is about 6400 km, how many basketballs would it take to circle around the equator with the basketballs touching one another? Round off your answer to an integer with three significant figures.

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QUESTION:

The circumference of an NBA-approved basketball is 29.6 in. Given that the radius of Earth is about 6400 km, how many basketballs would it take to circle around the equator with the basketballs touching one another? Round off your answer to an integer with three significant figures.

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We have to find out the number of basket balls required to circle the earth.

From the given data

Circumference of the basketball = 29.6d

Formulae of the circumference is as follows.

Circumference =

So,  29.6  =

 

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