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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.

   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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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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00:01 To figure out how many basketballs can circle the earth, nba basketballs, will take the diameter of an nba basketball, or actually the circumference of the nba basketball, and convert it into kilometers because those are the units that are used for the radius of the earth.
00:24 And we get 7 .5 times 10 to the negative 4 kilometers per basketball.
00:31 So if this then is the kilometers that correspond to the circumference, the diameter of the basketball is going to be equal to the circumference divided by pi.
00:49 2 .39, 10 to the negative 4 kilometers...
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