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Approximately how far north of houston is kansas city use degrees of latitude to calculate your answer

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Straightline, about 660 miles, or about 10 degrees of latitude.

User Faten
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Answer:


646 miles.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let us first know the distance between the north of the center of Houston and center of Kansas City which is
9.344degrees.

The radius of earth is
6371 kilometer.

The circumference of the earth is
24900 miles

As per geometry the distance between two places separated by a degrees is given by


(9.344)/(360) * 24900


= 646 miles

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