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Question 187052: Can you tell me how long it would take a locomotive traveling 3.53 miles per hour to travel 15 feet? 20 feet? 30 feet? Or, perhaps at least the formula for determining this sort of thing?
Many thanks!!! Found 2 solutions by vleith, stanbon:Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In your case, the speed is given in mph and the distance are given in feet. So you need to fix that up
3.53mph = 3.53*5280 = 18638.4 feet/hour
So for 15 feet but that is in hours. So convert to seconds = seconds
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Can you tell me how long it would take a locomotive traveling 3.53 miles per hour to travel 15 feet? 20 feet? 30 feet? Or, perhaps at least the formula for determining this sort of thing?
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3.53 miles/hr = 3.53[3280 feet/hr] or 18638.4 feet/hr = 310.64 feet/min
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Time to travel 15 ft:
= (310.64/310.64)*(feet/(60 sec/310.64)
= 1 foot/0.1931 second
= 15 feet/2.8972 seconds
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Time to travel 20 feet
= 20 feet/[20*0.1931 sec] = 20 feet / 3.8620 seconds
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Time to travel "x" feet
= x feet/[0.1931x sec]
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Cheers,
Stan H.