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1. Driving down the street in your ‘64, you drive at a responsible constant speed of 25 mph. You only look down at your phone for three seconds to see who texted you but during that time how far have you driven with your eyes off the road? Now let’s say you are driving on the freeway at a constant speed of 65 mph how far have you driven with your eyes off the road in this case? Answer should be in meters and in terms of city blocks

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ANSWER:

33.54 meters

87.18 meters

STEP-BY-STEP EXPLANATION:

The first thing is to convert the units, just like this:

1 mile = 1609.3 meters

1 hour = 3600 seconds

Therefore:

[tex]\begin{gathered} 25\frac{mi}{hr}\cdot\frac{1609.3\text{ m}}{1\text{ mi}}\cdot\frac{1\text{ hr}}{3600\text{ sec}}=11.18\text{ m/sec} \\ 65\frac{mi}{hr}\cdot\frac{1609.3\text{ m}}{1\text{ mi}}\cdot\frac{1\text{ hr}}{3600\text{ sec}}=29.06\text{ m/sec} \end{gathered}[/tex]

Since 3 seconds pass, in each case it would be:

[tex]\begin{gathered} 11.18\text{ m/s}\cdot3\text{ sec = }33.54\text{ m} \\ 29.06\text{ m/s}\cdot3\text{ sec =}87.18\text{ m} \end{gathered}[/tex]

Which means that in the first case he drove 33.54 meters without seeing the road and in the second case he drove 87.18 meters without seeing the freeway

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