Question

If a satellite can travel 200 feet per second. How many hours will it take the satellite to travel 10,000 miles?

Answer 1

1 mile = 5,280 feet

10,000 miles x 5,280 feet = 52,800,000 feet

10,000 miles = 52,800,000 feet


Another way to do this is to move the decimal over 4 places to the right:
5,280.
52,800. = moved over once
528,000. = moved over twice
5,280,000. = moved over three times
52,800,000. = moved over four times

So that’s another way to get 52,800,000 .
I used 5,280 in that because that’s how may feet are in 1 mile, and we’re trying to find how many feet equals 10,000 miles.

Either way, it gives you the correct answer for that part of the problem.

So NEXT we divide that number by how fast is goes per second:

52,800,000 feet / 200 feet = 264,000 seconds


Next we divide the seconds into minutes:

60 seconds = 1 minute
264,000 seconds / 60 seconds = 4,400 minutes

Next we divide the minutes into hours to get your answer:

4,400 minutes / 60 minutes = 73.33 hours
73.33 hours = 73 hours and 20 minutes
(20 minutes is about .33 % of an hour)



I hope this helped!