A toy car races along a circular track and is constantly 3 feet from the center of the race track. Imagine an angle with a vertex at the center of the race track that subtends the car's path. (Draw a diagram of this!) If the racecar travels 1.5 feet in the CCW direction along the track, what is the angle's measure in radians?  radians    If the racecar travels 7.8 feet in the CW direction along the track, what is the angle's measure in radians?  radians

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A toy car races along a circular track and is constantly 3 feet from the center of the race track. Imagine an angle with a vertex at the center of the race track that subtends the car's path. (Draw a diagram of this!)

  1. If the racecar travels 1.5 feet in the CCW direction along the track, what is the angle's measure in radians?

     radians   

  2. If the racecar travels 7.8 feet in the CW direction along the track, what is the angle's measure in radians?

     radians

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