SOLUTION: a boat travels 110 feet in 5 sceonds. What is the boat's speed in miles per hour?

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: a boat travels 110 feet in 5 sceonds. What is the boat's speed in miles per hour? This question is from textbook Mathematics

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a boat travels 110 feet in 5 seconds. What is the boat's speed in miles per hour?
:
Find out how many feet in one second: 110/5 = 22 ft/sec
:
There are 60*60 = 3600 seconds in 1 hour
Therefore
3600 * 22 = 79200 ft traveled in 1 hr
:
There are 5280 ft in 1 mile:
Therefore:
= 15 mph
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