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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by topology the study of [Trees and leaves in fall season]

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cute tops work those polka dots there baby

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Here's the question based on the map roughly how many miles are traveled in a

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round-trip flight from Orlando to Jacksonville and here are the potential

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answer all right round trip map we can do this we're not sure why anybody who [Person flying on a broomstick]

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lived in the same city as the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Disney World

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would ever want to leave but let's just say they did how many miles would

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it take them before they realized how good they had it in return from [Man flying on a broomstick looking sad]

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Jacksonville well using the Albers equal-area projection as our key we can

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see that a one-way trip from Orlando to Jacksonville is just about 120 miles so [Orlando and Jacksonville on a map]

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answer A is incorrect for this particular situation it would be fine if somebody

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was staying in Jacksonville for good but seriously Orlando has magic.... Jacksonville has

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an Applebee's anyway answer B is 160 mile and that's enough to get us to Jacksonville [Man flies plane to Jacksonville]

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but that would only get us about a third of the way back to Orlando and

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considering we can't apparate the rest of the way, that's not going to cut it

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So that eliminates answers A and B if we use the equal projection key to measure answers

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D and E we overshoot Orlando by a distance of at least 80 miles and land somewhere [Man lands plane into a lake]

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in Lake Okeechobee and yeah that's pretty dang cool name for a lake but we'd

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rather end up somewhere that doesn't require evading alligators...

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which means correct answer is C this is an example of a typical map with many

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layers of information including highways major cities and natural features [Highway road, tall buildings and mountains appear]

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looking past all that jazz and focusing on the two cities in the scale and mile

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we can surmise the distance from Orlando to Jacksonville about 120 miles around

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true it would be 240 but we're pretty sure there are faster ways to get to [Wizard approaches fireplace]

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Orlando like... floo- powder what could possibly go wrong...

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