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What a strange thing to assume :-P Oh, it's true (close enough for rock'n'roll); but it's not the fact that is easy to remember, historically interesting, and makes the math easy for this problem. That fact is:
So one degree of latitude (measured N-S) is $111 \frac19$ kilometers; a kilometer, in a N-S direction, is 0.009 degrees. So now you can solve your question easily. A degree of longitude, measured E-W, is shorter except near the equator. A kilometer from the North Pole there are 360 degrees in a 1-km-radius circle, so each one is only about 160m long! Up around 45N where I live, a degree of longitude is about 78 km. Very close to the equator a degree of longitude is actually longer because the earth's spin makes it slightly M&M-shaped.) Good Hunting! | ||||||||||||
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