Answer the following questions in the space provided.

Question

The first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest (Tenzing Norgay of Nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand) climbed the last 400 meters of the ascent in 4 hours (or about 14,400 seconds). Rounding to the nearest hundredth, what was the average speed in meters per second of the last part of the climb? Show your Calculations.

 

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Answer 1

400m / 14400 sec

40000cm / 14400 sec

400cm / 144 sec

2.77777...cm / sec