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Every day, about 140,000,000 plastic water bottles are bought in the United States. Each bottle is about 0.250 meters long, and the equator of the Earth is about 40,000,000 meters around.How many times can the Earth's equator be circled by a line of plastic bottles used in the United States every day

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0.250*140,000,000=35,000,000
40,000,000/35,000,000= 1.14
So about 1 time
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