The fastest a human has ever run is 27miles per hour how many miles per minute did the human run

Question

It’s math

Answer 1

First step is to highlight the important details:

  - Fastest Sprint = 27 miles per hour

Next, is to note what the question is asking you to answer or find out:

 - How many miles does the sprinter run in terms of minutes

Then, you need to do some conversions:

 -There are _____ minutes in one hour... and each hour, the sprinter runs 27 miles.

 

OK... I think we are getting somewhere... there are 60 minutes in 1 hour. This mean our next step would be to divide the number of mile the sprinter ran in 1 hour by 60 to get the rate per minute...

Hence our next step ....

Since he/she runs 27 miles every hour, it's the same as saying he/she runs 27 miles every 60 minutes. But the question asked for the rate or miles ran per minute...So we need to divide the 27 miles by 60 minutes to see how many miles or what fraction of a mile is covered in one minute.

 

27/60 = 0.45 of a mile per minute or 9/20 of a mile per minute

Answer 2

This is a conversion problem. We must convert miles per hour, mph, to miles per minute, mpmin. The miles are the same, they do not need to be converted, but we must convert the hours into minutes.

1hr = 60 mins

27miles/hr X 1hr/60 mins = 27miles/60mins = 0.45miles/min

 

The answer is 0.45miles/minute.