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Question 482148: if you travel 20 miles in 1/5 of a second how long would it take to travel 60 miles?
Answer by bucky(2189)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Think carefully about this problem.
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60 miles is 3 times the distance (20 miles) that you travel in 1/5 of a second .
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Therefore, it will take you 3 times the time that it takes you to go 20 miles.
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Since it takes you 1/5 second to go 20 miles, it will take you 3 times that or 3/5 second to go 60 miles. That's the answer ... 3/5 of a second.
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That's fast! Since you go 20 miles in 1/5 second in 5/5 (or 1) second you will go 5 times 20 miles or 100 miles each second. And since there are 60 seconds in a minute, you will go 60 times 100 miles in a minute. That's 6,000 miles per minute. And since there are 60 minutes in an hour, you will go 6,000 times 60 or 360,000 miles in an hour.
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