Approximately how fast is a person located at the Earth's equator travelling due to the rotation of the Earth?
A) 17,000 km/hr
B) 1,700 km/hr
C) 170 km/hr
D) 17 km/hr
E) not moving at all

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The circumference of the Earth at the equator is approximately 40,000 km. It takes 24 hours for the Earth to complete one rotation. Therefore, a person at the equator is travelling approximately 40,000 km / 24 hours = 1,666.7 km/hr. Rounded to the nearest hundred, this is 1,700 km/hr.

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