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Hey, 

 

Here's a surface area ratio problem of which I could use some help:

 

Titan and Rhea are the two largest moons of Saturn. The ratio of the surface area of Titan to the surface area of Rhea is about 34:3. If the diameter of Rhea is about 1530 km, what is the diameter of Titan, to the nearest ten kilometres?

 

Merci!

 Jun 25, 2014

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Lengths scale as the square root of areas.  So, as heureka has calculated,

radiusofRhea=343×1530radiusofRhea=5150.74751856466029

Note that this is 5150km to the nearest ten kilometres.

 Jun 26, 2014
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 Surface area of a sphere: S=πd2

STitan=πd2Titan

SRhea=πd2Rhea

STitanSRhea=πd2Titanπd2Rhea=343

d2Titand2Rhea=343

d2Titan=d2Rhea(343)

dTitan=dRhea(343)|dRhea=1530km

dTitan=1530km(343)=1530km3.36650164612=5150.75km5151km

Diameter of Titan is 5151 km

 Jun 26, 2014
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Best Answer

Lengths scale as the square root of areas.  So, as heureka has calculated,

radiusofRhea=343×1530radiusofRhea=5150.74751856466029

Note that this is 5150km to the nearest ten kilometres.

Alan Jun 26, 2014
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Thank you, heureka and Alan. 

 Jun 26, 2014

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