SOLUTION: While travelling down the highway (posted speed limit: 100km/hr), you estimate that you are travelling 20m/s. Will you get a speeding ticket?

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Question 1075822: While travelling down the highway (posted speed limit: 100km/hr), you estimate that you are travelling 20m/s. Will you get a speeding ticket?
Found 2 solutions by Theo, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

1 hour is equivalent to 3600 seconds.

20 meters per second for 3600 seconds is equal 72000 meters per hour.

72000 meters per hour divided by 100 is equal to 72 kilometers per hour.

you will not get a speeding ticket.


Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Make unit multipliers:



Cancel the meters



Cancel the seconds



Cancel the minutes



And all we have left is



or



No, he won't get a speeding ticket.

Edwin
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