Question

How long would it take a garden snail at his top speed of 0.01 m/s to travel 1 mile? Use 1 mile = 1609 meters. Round to the nearest whole hour.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a cute question lol.

So this lil snail is trying to go 1609 meters, at a speed of 0.01 m/s (meters per second). Lets see how long that takes.

The way I like to do conversion problems is by starting with the value that doesn't have something on the bottom (1609 m) then multiplying to get rid of that variable.

I'll show you what I mean:

$\frac{1609 m}{1} *\frac{1 s}{0.01 m} *\frac{1 min}{60s} *\frac{1 hr}{60 min}$

Then, we just multiply everything.

$\frac{1609 *1*1}{1*0.01*60*60}hr$

Simplify.

$\frac{1609}{36}hr$

Divide.

$44.694444444...hr$

Round to the nearest whole hour.

$45 hr$

Answer:

45 hours

Answer 2

Answer:

45 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

1 mile * 1609 meters  *     1 s           = 160900 sec

               1 mile               .01 meters

160900 sec / 60 /60 = 44.7 = 45 hours