the appalachian trail is a 2,155-mile hiking trail in the eastern United states. You plan to hike the section of the trail that is in New Jersey at a rate of 9 miles per day. If the hike will take you 8 days, what is the length of the trail in new Jersey?

On traditional maps, earth is represented in a flat plane, or by euclidean geometry. however, a globe is a more accurate model that comes from elliptical geometry.how does a globe represent the fact that there are no parallel lines in elliptical geometry? the equator is not parallel to any other latitudinal lines. the north and south poles are never connected by a geodesic. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles never intersect. the geodesics connecting the north and south poles intersect at both of the poles.