Student Instructions
💨Hurricane Florence is a large category 4 hurricane approaching the North Carolina and South Carolina coastline.
⛈ With a diameter of about 500 miles across (800 kilometers), according to USA Today, Hurricane Florence is larger than Hurricane Katrina. (9/11/18)
🌊Using the attached map and its scale, what is the scale factor of NC’s approximate coastline compared to Florence’s diameter?
🌀Hint: If you begin with a smaller figure, your scale factor will be less than one. If you begin with the larger figure your scale factor will be more than one.
🌀Hint: Diameter of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of a circle.
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