Problema Solution
a magazine published an april's fools story. it said that a man could throw 158-miles per hourfast ball. if the distance from the pitchers mound to the plateis 60.5 feet, how long would it take for a ball thrown at that rate to travel thatdistance
Answer provided by our tutors
distance = speed * time
time = distance / speed
conversion factors necessary:
1 mile = 5280 feet
1 hour = 3600 seconds
we express 158 mph as miles per feet and then divide by the distance and convert the answer in hours to seconds:
(60.5/(158(5280/1)) * (3600/1) = 0.26
it would only take a ball 0.26 seconds to travel from the pitcher's mound to homeplate at 158 mph