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The minute hand on a watch is 1.5cm long. what distance does the tip of this hand travel through in 1 hour and 1 day

pi is 3.14​

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The tip of the minute hand would describe a circumference with radius 1.5. The circumference is given by


C=2\pi r

Plug your radius in this formula and you'll get the distance covered in one hour. Multiply the result by 24 and you'll get the distance covered in one day.

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