SOLUTION: if you can travel 400 meters in 20 seconds how many meters can you travel in 1 hour?

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Question 389823: if you can travel 400 meters in 20 seconds how many meters can you travel in 1 hour?
Found 2 solutions by mananth, josmiceli:
Answer by mananth(16949) About Me  (Show Source):
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if you can travel 400 meters in 20 seconds how many meters can you travel in 1 hour?
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1 hour = 3600 seconds
So in 1 hour we the travel will be 400*3600/20
= 72,000 meters
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m.ananth@hotmail.ca

Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the velocity is
400%2F20 m/sec x 60 sec/min x 60 min/hr
Just looking at the units, you have
(m/sec) x (sec/min) x (min/hr)
This can be rearraged to look like
(sec/sec) x (min/min) x (m/hr)
resulting in m/hr for units
400%2F20+%2A+60+%2A+60+=+20%2A3600
20%2A3600+=+72000
72,000 m/hr