How long would it take to travel 15 degrees?

There are 24 meridians in the world each one 15 degrees apart.How long would it take to travel 15 degrees?How long would it take to travel 15 degrees?For 24 meridians there are 24 hours, so 1 meridian(15 degrees) will be of about 1 hour obviously. How long would it take to travel 15 degrees?Okay, here's how you figure out how long it takes for one degree of rotation.



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-Divide 24 (hours in a day) by 360 (Earth rotates 360 degrees in a day)

-Multiply that answer (0.06666667) by 60 (minutes in an hour) to find out how long 0.06666667 of an hour is.

-Your answer will be 4 minutes.



SHORTCUT METHOD:



-Multiply 24 by 60 to find out how many minutes are in a day.

-Divide that answer (1440) by 360.

-Your answer will be 4 minutes.

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Now that we know how long it takes to rotate one degree, simply multiply that by 15. Your answer is 60, or one hour. There are 24 meridians in the world, and each being an hour apart, that is the same as saying there are 24 hours in a day.How long would it take to travel 15 degrees?this is a loaded question, I am assuming you are talking on the earths surface, depends on how fast you are going, and what latitude your are talking about. At the the very north or south pole this could be achieved with one step, at the equator it would be roughly 1042 miles which is roughly 2hrs by passenger jet, 14 hrs by car, 35 hrs by a fast yacht. How long would it take to travel 15 degrees?
The earth is a sphere...nuff said...

There isn't 'one answer' to this question...

The meridians are spaced closer together near both poles,

so traveling between or amongst the meridians at these points would take much less time than it would at other points further north or south of the poles...