Question

A parachute rate during a free fall reaches 70 meters per second. What is the rate in feet per second? At this rate how many feet will the parachute fall during 20 seconds of free fall

Answer 1

Answer:

• 229.659 ft/s
• 4,593.18 ft

Step-by-step explanation:

1 foot is 0.3048 meters, so ...

  70 m/s = (70 m/s)×(1 ft)/(0.3048 m) ≈ 229.659 ft/s

At that speed, the distance covered in 20 seconds is ...

  (20 s)(229.659 ft/s) = 4,593.18 ft

The parachutist will fall 4593 feet during 20 seconds of free fall at 229.7 ft per second.

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Final answers are rounded. Intermediate values are not.