WILL MARK BRAINLIEST 30 WHOLE POINTS. A European newspaper featured an article about the amount of food that was sold just before a national holiday, and tried to put the big number it used in context by telling its readers that the number of carrots purchased were 3.5 million which was enough to stretch around the world 11 times. If you know that the circumference of the Earth is 40,000 km, how can you work out that the author of the article had made a mistake.