Thirty years ago, police would check a highway for speeders by sending a helicopter up in the air and observing the time it would take for a car to travel a marked distance. If a car was observed to take 7.2 seconds to travel this distance, how much time did it take the car to travel the same distance in hours?

To calculate the time it took for the car to travel the distance in hours, we need to convert the given time from seconds to hours. To do this, we divide the given time of 7.2 seconds by the number of seconds in an hour, which is 3600 seconds.
So, the time it took for the car to travel the distance in hours is:
7.2 seconds / 3600 seconds = 0.002 hours.
Therefore, it took the car 0.002 hours to travel the distance.

Answered by qwstar | 2024-06-19

The car took 0.002 hours to travel the distance. This was calculated by dividing the time taken in seconds (7.2 seconds) by the number of seconds in an hour (3600 seconds). Therefore, 7.2 seconds converts to 0.002 hours.
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Answered by qwstar | 2024-12-26