Question

The Torrid Zone on Earth is the area between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The distance between these two tropics is about 3250 miles. You can estimate the distance as the height of a cylindrical belt around the Earth at the equator.

A) Estimate the surface area of the Torrid Zone. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a million. (The radius of Earth is about 3960 miles.)

Answer 1

The surface area of the Torrid zone is 179,418,254.4 miles^2

Explanation:

In this question, we are to estimate the surface area of the Torrid zone

From the question, we can deduce that the Torrid zone is like a cylindrical belt with a height of 3250 miles while the radius of the earth is 3960 miles

Thus, to calculate the surface area of the Torrid zone, we use the formula for the surface area of a cylinder

Mathematically, this is

A = 2πr ( r + h)

In this case, r = 3960 miles and h = 3250 miles

Substituting these values into the equation, we have

A = 2 * 3.142 * 3960(3960 + 3250)

A = 6.284 * 3960(7210) miles^2

A = 179,418,254.4 miles^2