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Jeremy has heard a lot of people in the club talking about tackling a 950-foot rock formation. Jeremy has set a limit that they won't climb anything that takes longer than 7 hours, so they have enough time to travel to and from the place. Will it be possible to climb a 950-foot rock formation within Jeremy's time constraint? Explain why or why not.

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No, the amount of minutes to climb up 1 foot of the height would be around 2-3 minutes. If you divide 950 with 2, you get 475 which would estimate to 7.92 hours. So as we see they would need an extra 55.2 minutes to climb the full 950 feet.

I hope this helps y'all ;p

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Answer:

The answer is "no".

Explanation:

Please find the image file of the question in the attachment.

In the given question, it will take approximately 2-3 min to climb 1 step taller. It's an estimate of 7.92 hours, if you split 950 to 2, it is the period it would take you to go out in minutes when we turn 475 mins into minutes. As we see it will take them an extra 92 mins for 950 feet to ascend. They can achieve it by ascending this at an average rate of 135.7 ft/h.

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