You and your friends decide to travel, on foot, to your favorite beach at the Jersey Shore. Your speed for the first part of the
trip is 2.2 mi/hr. Twenty-three minutes after starting your trip, the group decides to stop at a convenience store for a drink. After stopping at the convenience store for five minutes, you continue your travels for 0.9 hour and then stop at a local fast-food restaurant for a bite to eat. You spend 20 minutes eating your favorite burger and 480 seconds after continuing your journey, you stop to use the restroom for 0.5 hr. Now that everyone feels a little lighter, the group increases its speed to 5.5 km/hr and spends the next 900,000 milliseconds traveling to a friend’s beach house to get sun block. After spending five minutes getting the sun block and raiding your friend’s pantry for snacks, the group starts “fist-pumping” in anticipation of their arrival at the beach. Eleven minutes and twenty five seconds later, you and your friends finally feel the warm sand beneath your feet. Approximately how many miles away is the beach?
It is 12:00 and you just heard that local officials are tracking a violent storm heading westward, directly for your town and school. The storm is traveling at 25 km/hr and it is currently 75 kilometers east of your school. If the school day is not shortened, and you remain until two o’clock (the official end of the day), will you and all others in the school get home before the storm hits?
