SOLUTION: A car travels for 13 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds, at a speed of 13 miles per hour. How far does the car travel?

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Question 453476: A car travels for 13 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds, at a speed of 13 miles per hour. How far does the car travel?

Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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Multiply 13 times 3600 to find the number of seconds in 13 hours.

Multiply 13 times 60 to find the number of seconds in 13 minutes.

Add the two results above. Then add 13. The result will be the number of seconds in 13 hours, 13 minutes, and 13 seconds.

Next divide 13 3600 which will give you the number of miles per second in 13 miles per hour. The number of miles per second times the number of seconds calculated above is the number miles traveled.

Roughly speaking, 172 miles.

John

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