SOLUTION: A yellow jacket can fly 4.5 meters in 9 seconds. How fast in kilometers per hour can a yellow jacket fly?

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Question 120320: A yellow jacket can fly 4.5 meters in 9 seconds. How fast in kilometers per hour can a yellow jacket fly?
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A yellow jacket can fly 4.5 meters in 9 seconds. How fast in kilometers per hour can a yellow jacket fly?
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Find out how many meters is can fly in 1 sec
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4.5/9 = .5 m/sec
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The are 3600 sec in 1 hr
3600*.5 = 1800 meters in 1 hr
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Divide by 1000 to find km/hr
1800/1000 = 1.8 km/hr
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As one equation
km/hr = %284.5%2A3600%29%2F%289%2A1000%29 = 1.8