how many days does it take a team of drivers to drive a truck california and back to lansing if the drivers average 15m/s includ

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3 years ago

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ing breaks and traffic? california is 1800 miles from lansing

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malfutka [58] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-12T05:22:44+03:00

4days and 12hours

Explanation:

Given parameters:

Average speed = 15m/s

Distance = 1800 miles

Unknown:

Number of days = ?

Solution:

Speed is the rate of change of distance with time;

Speed = $\frac{distance}{time}$

Since the unknown is number of days, it is a measure of time:

Time = $\frac{distance }{speed}$

The distance from California to Lansing is 1800miles. The journey takes the truck drivers to and fro. It is a two way trip;

Total distance = 1800 miles x 2 = 3600miles

We need to convert miles to meters since that is the unit we can conveniently work with;

1 mile = 1609.34m

3600 miles = 3600 x 1609.34

= 5793638m

Inputting the values in the equation:

Time = $\frac{ 5793638}{15}$ = 386242.53s

Now we need to convert to day;

In a day, = 60 x 60 x 24 = 86,400s

1 day = 86400s

Therefore;

The number of days = $\frac{386242.53}{86400}$ = 4.47days

This implies that it will take them 4 days and approximately 12 hours.

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