Question

At its closest point, the distance from the Moon to the Earth is 225,622 miles.The circumference of the earth is 24,901 miles. How many times would you have to travel around the circumference of the Earth to equal the distance from the Earth to the Moon?

Answer 1

To be able to determine how many times we have to travel around the circumference of the Earth to equal the distance from the Earth to the Moon, simply divide the distance from the Moon to the Earth by the circumference of the earth.

`225,622miles/24,901mles=9.0607\approx9.06`

This means we have to travel around the circumference of Earth 9.06 times to equal the distance from the Earth to the Moon.