Elementary Technical Mathematics

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1285199197
ISBN 13: 978-1-28519-919-1

Chapter 3 - Section 3.7 - Metric and U.S. Conversion - Exercise - Page 156: 55

Answer

$65mi/h=29.06m/s\approx29.1~m/s$

Work Step by Step

We need to convert miles per hour into meters per second. The conversion factors are $1$ $ mile=1609.34$ $meters$ and $1hr=60*60~s=3600s$ Thus, we have: $65mi/h*\frac{1609.34meters}{1 mile}*\frac{1hr}{3600s}=29.06m/s\approx29.1~m/s$
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