SOLUTION: patrick runs in a direction north 60 degrees east and after 45 minutes finds himself 3900 m north of his starting point. what is patrick's speed in minutes per second?

Question 616572: patrick runs in a direction north 60 degrees east and after 45 minutes finds himself 3900 m north of his starting point. what is patrick's speed in minutes per second?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
patrick runs in a direction north 60 degrees east and after 45 minutes finds himself 3900 m north of his starting point. what is patrick's speed in minutes per second?
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His angle with the N-S line is 60 degs
The hypotenuse of the right triangle formed by his end point, the starting point and the point 3900 m North is 7800 m.
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He ran 7800 m in 45 minutes
d = r*t
r = d/t
Not sure what units you want.

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