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Phileas Fogg was the hero of Jules Verne's adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days. The distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles. How far was Fogg able to travel in one day?

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He traveled 312.5 miles in 1 day.
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Answer: 312.5 miles

Explanation:

Given: Phileas Fogg was the hero of Jules Verne's adventure novel Around the World in Eighty Days.

The number of days he took to travel around the earth = 80

The distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles.

Then , the distance traveled by Fogg in one day is given by :-


\text{Distance traveled in one day}=\frac{\text{Total distance}}{\text{Total time}}\\\\\Rightarrow\ \text{Distance traveled in one day}=(25,000)/(80)=312.5\text{ miles}

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