SOLUTION: During a track meet one athlete ran 1 mile in five minutes and another athlete ran 5000 m in 280 seconds the two runners use different units to describe their races so how can you

Question 1092017: During a track meet one athlete ran 1 mile in five minutes and another athlete ran 5000 m in 280 seconds the two runners use different units to describe their races so how can you compare them?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
During a track meet one athlete ran 1 mile in five minutes and another athlete ran 5000 m in 280 seconds the two runners use different units to describe their races so how can you compare them?
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We can change the first runner into meters per second (1 mi = 1609.35 meters)
= 5.3645 meters/sec
The second runner
= 17.857 meters/sec
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