Latitude | Ombre/Shadow | Angle | |
44°08' N | Lafrançaise (FR) | +98,5 cm -->N | + 44°30' |
36°45' N | Virginia Beach(VA USA) | ....... cm -->N | + 37°11' |
This gave us a central angle of 37.18 degrees.
Our distance to the equator is 2528 miles.
Therefore using the proportion, we measured 24,478 miles.
The actual circumference is 24,902 miles.
Our percent error was -1.7%.
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