SOLUTION: Jermaine wants to know how fast he is traveling in a school bus, but he cannot see the speedometer. He records that the bus travels 1 mile in 75 seconds. How fast is Jermaine trave
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Question 1067761: Jermaine wants to know how fast he is traveling in a school bus, but he cannot see the speedometer. He records that the bus travels 1 mile in 75 seconds. How fast is Jermaine traveling in miles per hour? Found 2 solutions by rothauserc, Boreal:Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! rate * time = distance
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we are given time = 75 seconds and distance = 1 mile
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we want the rate to be expressed as miles per hour so we convert 75 seconds to a fraction of an hour
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there are 60 * 60 = 3600 seconds in an hour, therefore
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75 / 3600 = 0.020833333 or approximately 0.0208 hours
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rate = 1 / 0.0208 = 48.0769 or approximately 48 miles per hour
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