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