SOLUTION: If it takes you 45 seconds to run one block, how fast are you running in miles per hour? (8 city blocks = 1 mile )

Question 1082713: If it takes you 45 seconds to run one block, how fast are you running in miles per hour? (8 city blocks = 1 mile )
Answer by ikleyn(52787) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Your proportion is

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where x is the distance covered in 1 hour = 3600 seconds.


Then x =  = 10 miles.


Answer  Your speed running is 10 miles per hour.

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