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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Huh?
11 miles x 11 miles = 121 sq miles x 640 acres/sq mile = 77,440 acres
75 miles x 75 miles = 5625 sq miles x 640 acres/sq mile = 3,600,000 acres
I'm no mathematician so what am I doing wrong?  |
You're absolutely right... I worded my sentences wrongly.
..7,000 acres = 10.9 square miles -
not a square 10.9 miles on a side.
47,000 acres = 73.4 square miles -
not a square 73.4 miles on a side.
So then, 73.4 square miles would be like a square ~ 8.6 miles on a side.
That's much more reasonable for the spread of a wildfire than what I was thinking.
Thank you for catching my errors