Question

A garden snail travels 0.013 meters per second. If 1 meter = 39.37 inches, how fast is the snail traveling in miles per hour?

Answer 1

We are given

speed=0.013 m/s

so, we can also write as

$v=0.013\frac{m}{s}$

now, we can change it into miles/hour

so, we know that

1mile =1609.34 m

now, we can find for 1m

$1m=\frac{1}{1609.34} mile$

we know that

$1s=\frac{1}{3600}hr$

we can write our speed as

$v=0.013\frac{1m}{1s}$

we can plug values

$v=0.013\frac{\frac{1}{1609.34} mile}{\frac{1}{3600}hr}$

now, we can simplify it

so, we get

$v=0.02908mi/hr$...........Answer