document.write( "Question 203758: Please help me solve, Iam unsure how to set up the problem... it shows in the book but I cannot understand the explanation\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "#6. If a car travels 1/100 kilometer each second, how many kilometers does it travel in an hour?
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\n" ); document.write( "I tried this 1/100*120 seconds... this is not right, I dont understand why.
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "I'm not exactly sure how you derived the 120 in , but I suspect that you added 60 seconds per minute to 60 minutes per hour. That makes as much sense as adding 3 apples to 4 math homework assignments -- which is to say no sense at all.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Each minute consists of 60 seconds. So, the first minute is 60 seconds, and the second minute has 60 seconds, so 2 minutes has seconds. 3 minutes would be seconds, and so on. But an hour has 60 minutes, so an hour is , for 60 terms of 60 each which is the same as \r
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