Every day, about 140,000,000 plastic water bottles are bought in the united states. each bottle is about 0.25 meters long, and the equator of the earth is about 40,000,000 meters around.

how many times can the earth's equator be circled by a line of plastic bottles used in the united states every day?

0.875 times Earth's equator is circled by plastic bottles every day.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given: No of plastic water bottles every day = 140,000,000

           Length of a bottle = 0.25 m

           length of equator of earth = 40,000,000 m

To find: no times Earth's equator is circled by line of bottles every day

No of plastic water bottles every day = 140,000,000

Length of 1 plastic water bottle = 0.25m

⇒ Length of 140,000,000 plastic bottles = 0.25 × 140000000

                                                                    = 35000000 m

No. of times Earth's Equator is circled by bottles =

                                                                                = 0.875

Therefore, 0.875 times Earth's equator is circled by plastic bottles every day.

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!