Question

A cruise ship is traveling at a speed of 20 knots. A knot is aproxamatley equal to 1.151 miles per hour what is the approximate speed the ship is traveling in yards per second ? Round to the nearest tenth

Answer 1

20 knots * 1.151 = 23.02 miles per hour  There are 1,760 yards in a mile and 3,600 seconds in an hour.  So, we multiply 23.02 * (1,760 / 3,600) which equals

11.2542222222 yards / second