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Darkhrse99
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Homework Statement
The Earth's radius is 6.37x10^6 meters. I need to convert this to surface area in km^2 and it's volume in cubic kilometers.
I'm not sure where to start on either one.
Thanks
Jason
Darkhrse99 said:Surface area is 4pi R^2 and surface volume is 4pi R^3
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