Carly walks 30 feet in seven seconds. At this rate, how many minutes will it take for Carly to walk a mile if there are 5,280 feet in one mile?
1 Answer
roughly
Explanation:
We are given a rate of walking as
Let's first look at the units we have and where we want to end up:
We want minutes as our answer, so:
We're given a rate in
We know the number of feet to be walked:
and what's left is a conversion factor to change seconds to minutes:
Now let's drop in the numbers: