SOLUTION: At the San Francisco Cable Car Museum you can see the four cable lines that are used to pull cable cars up and down the hills of the city. Each cable car travels at a speed of 9.

Question 883557: At the San Francisco Cable Car Museum you can see the four cable lines
that are used to pull cable cars up and down the hills of the city. Each cable car travels at a speed of 9.55 miles per hour caused by a rotating wheel whose diameter is 8.5 feet.
a) How fast is the wheel rotating? Express your answer in feet/minute rounded to the nearest tenth of a foot per minute.
b) What is the speed of the wheel in revolutions per minute? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a revolution/minute.

Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At the San Francisco Cable Car Museum you can see the four cable lines
that are used to pull cable cars up and down the hills of the city.
Each cable car travels at a speed of 9.55 miles per hour caused by a rotating wheel whose diameter is 8.5 feet.
:
a) How fast is the wheel rotating? Express your answer in feet/minute rounded to the nearest tenth of a foot per minute.
Find the speed of the cable car in ft/min
= 840 ft/min
b) What is the speed of the wheel in revolutions per minute? Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a revolution/minute.
Find the circumference of the wheel
C =
C = 25.447 ft is the circumference of the wheel
Find the rpm
= 33.03 rev/min

RELATED QUESTIONS
The cable TV industry reports that 59% of homes in the US to cable TV. If you pick four... (answered by stanbon)

In order to connect a dvd player to a tv set you need a cable with a special adaptor at... (answered by ewatrrr)

A cable slopes downward from a height of 29 feet to a resting place 20 feet above the... (answered by stanbon)

Lotsafun Amusement Park has a new ride, th Sky Breaker. The starting and ending points of (answered by stanbon)

Eastern Cable and Com Switch are two companies specializing in digital switching systems. (answered by Theo)

A cable hangs in the form of a branch of a hyperbola between two poles that are 20 meters (answered by ikleyn)

When the load is uniformly distributed horizontally, the cable of a suspension bridge... (answered by lwsshak3)

Nine out of eleven people at a math convention are bored to tears by cable news. If 2462... (answered by macston)

the mobile phone company is anchoring wires to the top of their 120 ft high communication (answered by Darleny)