SOLUTION: MAny major league baseball pitchers can throw the ball at 90 miles per hour. At that speed how long does it take a pitch to travel from th e pitcher's mound to home plate a distanc

SOLUTION: MAny major league baseball pitchers can throw the ball at 90 miles per hour. At that speed how long does it take a pitch to travel from th e pitcher's mound to home plate a distanc

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Question 335969: MAny major league baseball pitchers can throw the ball at 90 miles per hour. At that speed how long does it take a pitch to travel from th e pitcher's mound to home plate a distance of 60 feet 6 inches?
Give answer to the nearest hundreth of a second.
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
60.5/90*5280
60.5/475,200=.0001263 hours
.0001263*3,600=.45 seconds.
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