SOLUTION: please help me solve this problem. A Police heliciopteris above the freeway watching traffic when it spots a speeding car.Thelicopter knows that the next four off ramps are exact

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Question 238635: please help me solve this problem.
A Police heliciopteris above the freeway watching traffic when it spots a speeding car.Thelicopter knows that the next four off ramps are exactly one mile apart if the car that is speeding passes one off ramp 30seconds how fast is the speeding traveling in miles per hour?
HINT-a car traveling at 60 miles per hour will travel 1 mile in 60 seconds.

Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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If it takes half the time, he has to be going twice as fast. 30 seconds is half of 60 seconds, so 2 times 60 = ?


John