SOLUTION: suppose you could travel 30 miles in 15 seconds, and the circumference of the world is approximately 24,000 miles. How many miles could you travel in 1 hour, and how long would it
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Question 287641: suppose you could travel 30 miles in 15 seconds, and the circumference of the world is approximately 24,000 miles. How many miles could you travel in 1 hour, and how long would it take to travel the world? (Answers in hours and minutes) Found 2 solutions by richwmiller, texttutoring:Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 15 seconds=.25 minutes
That would be 120 miles in one minute.
6*120=720 miles an hour
24000/720= hours to travel the world at the equator.
divide by 24
1000/30=100/3=33 hours 20 minutes
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Set up a proportion:
let t = number of seconds it takes to travel 24000 miles
Convert to minutes:
Convert to hours:
