Now imagine the rope is made just one meter longer and lifted uniformly off the surface until it is once again taught.
Rope around the earth.
40 000 divided by 2 is 20 000.
The rope around the earth puzzle.
Imagine there s a rope around the equator of an earth sized sphere making it around 25 000 miles long.
Divide again by pi to get the earth s radius 6 370km.
2pi or approximately 6 28 feet for both the basketball and the earth.
Rope around the earth puzzle imagine a rope that fits snugly all the way around the earth like a ring on a person s finger.
From the diagram it s pretty clear it s one foot.
Let c be the earth s circumference r be its radius c be the added string length and r be the added radius.
If you put 1 metre high sticks right around the equator and lay the rope on.
A corollary is that to raise the original string 16 cm 6 3 in off the ground all the way around the equator only about 1 metre 3 ft 3 in needs to be added.
This below is one answer i saw.
How much longer must it be for it to be one foot off the ground all the way around the equator.
Now imagine lifting off this very long rope don t ask me how cutting it somewhere so as to stitch into it exactly one meter of extra rope.
The idea is to imagine the earth is a cube or just a square really and ask yourself if you added say 8 feet to the rope how far would that raise it above the square earth.
From there it s not hard to believe that adding 3 feet to a rope around the actual earth would raise it almost 6 inches.
Imagine a rope tied around the earth s equator like a ring on a person s finger.