SOLUTION: an airplane is traveling 550 miles per hour. It is carrying 80 passengers. How many miles per minute? How many feet per second? How many passenger-miles on a 400 mile trip? How

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Question 585804: an airplane is traveling 550 miles per hour. It is carrying 80 passengers.
How many miles per minute?
How many feet per second?
How many passenger-miles on a 400 mile trip?
How many passenger-miles per minute?

Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
an airplane is traveling 550 miles per hour.
It is carrying 80 passengers.
:
How many miles per minute?
= 9.167 mi/min
:
How many feet per second?
= 806.67 ft/sec
:
How many passenger-miles on a 400 mile trip?
80 * 400 = 32000 pass-mi
:
How many passenger-miles per minute?
find the no. of minutes to make the trip: * 60 = 43.64 minutes
= 738 pass-mi/min

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