Question

The 100-foot clock tower in Rome, Georgia is more than 100 feet tall. The minute hand is 4 feet, 3 inches long, and the hour hand is 3 feet, 6 inches long. How many inches farther does the tip of the minute hand travel than the tip of the hour hand in one day?

I'm not quite sure how to do this, but I have a few things that I know: the minute hand HAS to travel more because it moves more than the hour hand. The circumference (if drawn) with radius of the minute hand will be 102pi inches and the the circumference (if drawn) for the hour hand will be 84pi inches. Not sure where to.go from there.

Answer 1

just subtract the smaller circumference from the larger. The difference is how much farther the longer hand travels.

Odd, how you did the hard part, but then got stuck on the simple subtraction.