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If you use a volleyball as a model of the Earth, how big would 1 kilometer be on it? The volleyball has a circumference of $68$ $\mathrm{cm}$.
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First, we need to find the scale of the model. To do this, we need to know the actual circumference of the Earth. The Earth's circumference is approximately 40,075 kilometers. Show more…
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