SOLUTION: A sailboat is traveling at a speed of 10 nautical miles per hour. If 1 nautical mile is 6076 ft, what is the speed of the sailboat in feet per second?

Question 352058: A sailboat is traveling at a speed of 10 nautical miles per hour. If 1 nautical mile is 6076 ft, what is the speed of the sailboat in feet per second?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A sailboat is traveling at a speed of 10 nautical miles per hour. If 1 nautical mile is 6076 ft, what is the speed of the sailboat in feet per second?
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1 nautical mile = 6076 ft.
speed = 10 nautical miles/hour
=60760 feet /hour
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1 hour = 3600 seconds
60760/3600
= 16.88 ft.second.
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