Given a car is traveling 70 miles per hour, a boat is traveling 60 kilometers per hour, which is moving faster?

Answer 1

The best way to approach this problem would be to convert the units so that they are both the same.

I don't know how many kilometers equals 1 mile off the top of my head, but 1 mile is longer than 1 kilometer. Since both values are per hour, then 70 miles per hour is faster than 60 kilometers per hour.

I looked online and 1 mile = 1.609 km.

In other words, to convert from kilometers per hour to miles per hour, divide by 1.609.

Here take 60/1.609 = 37.29 miles per hour. So 70 miles per hour is faster than 37.29 miles per hour.