The area of the pacific ocean is 165 million km2. use 15 million km2 as the area

A ratio is simply a fraction where the first term is the numerator and the second term is the denominator. For this problem, we just need to simplify the fraction of the area of the garbage patch over the area of the pacific ocean.

Doing this we'll have:


ANSWER: The ratio of the area of the Garbage Patch to the area of the Pacific Ocean is  or .

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recall your SOH CAH TOA



we have,
the angle,
the hypotenuse,
we want the opposite side

which of those fellows have only that? ahhhh it has to be Ms Sine,
so let's ask her


the opposite side "x", is how tall the tree is

when taking the sine function, make sure your calculator is in Degree mode, since the angle is in degrees