Question

There’s a problem with chair B. In order to fix it, the mechanics need to know the angle formed at the center of the ferris wheel between chairs B and D. If we know that the chairs are evenly spaced around the wheel, what is the angle measure that they are looking for?

Answer 1

60 degrees

Explanation:

The wheel is a circunference, so it has a total of 360 degrees. As we have 12 chairs evenly spaced, this 360 degrees will also be divided evenly, so the angle between each pair of chairs is equal to 360 / 12 = 30 degrees.

As we want the angle between chairs B and D, we have two spaces between chairs (the space between B and C and the space between C and D), so the angle is 2 * 30 = 60 degrees