big numbers – Ringo Lingo https://ringolingo.com Free ESL English Dictations and Tools for English Learners Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:35:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/ringolingo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-icon-r.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 big numbers – Ringo Lingo https://ringolingo.com 32 32 200435589 How Many Sausages Would It Take To Surround the World? https://ringolingo.com/dictation/how-many-sausages-would-it-take-to-surround-the-world/ Wed, 01 Sep 2021 11:35:53 +0000 https://ringolingo.com/?post_type=dictation&p=88 Have you ever asked yourself how many? sausages it would take to surround the world??

Well, the answer is one large one!? Or, to be more precise, 421,842,105.?

How is this calculated?? We know the Earth’s circumference is? 40,075 kilometres which is 40,075,000,000 mm.? We also know that the average? pork sausage is 95mm in length.?

Therefore, if we divide 40,075,000,000 by 95? (the size of one sausage),? we get the total of 421,842,105 sausages.? Wow!

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