SOLUTION: an airplane is traveling 550 miles per hour. It is carrying 80 passengers. How many miles per minute? How many feet per second? How many passenger-miles on a 400 mile trip? How

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Question 585804: an airplane is traveling 550 miles per hour. It is carrying 80 passengers.
How many miles per minute?
How many feet per second?
How many passenger-miles on a 400 mile trip?
How many passenger-miles per minute?
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an airplane is traveling 550 miles per hour.
It is carrying 80 passengers.
:
How many miles per minute?
550%2F60 = 9.167 mi/min
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How many feet per second?
%28550%2A5280%29%2F3600 = 806.67 ft/sec
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How many passenger-miles on a 400 mile trip?
80 * 400 = 32000 pass-mi
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How many passenger-miles per minute?
find the no. of minutes to make the trip: 400%2F550 * 60 = 43.64 minutes
32000%2F43.64 = 738 pass-mi/min