Spinning Your Wheels 2

Use the interactive applet below to answer the following questions.

In our last activity we learned that a wheel travels the distance of its circumference every full rotation. How many degrees are in a full rotation?

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Suppose a wheel has 6 spokes. How many degrees must the wheel turn to travel the distance from one spoke to the next?

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Fill out the following table.

Suppose you have five wheels of radius 50cm each with a different number of spokes. Find the distance each wheel travels when it turns from one spoke to the next.