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Major League Baseball's fastest recorded

pitch is 105 miles per hour. The distance
between the pitcher's mound and home
plate is 60 feet, 6 inches. How long did it
take the ball to travel from the pitcher to
the batter?

User Kasperhj
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Final answer:

To find the time it takes for a baseball to reach home plate when thrown at 105 miles per hour, convert the speed to feet per second and divide the distance to home plate by this speed.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate how long it took the ball to travel from the pitcher to the batter, we need to use the formula time = distance / speed. First, convert the pitcher's throw of 105 miles per hour to feet per second. There are 5280 feet in a mile and 3600 seconds in an hour, so 105 miles per hour is the same as (105 * 5280) / 3600 feet per second. After performing the calculation, we then divide the distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate (60 feet, 6 inches, which is 60.5 feet) by the speed in feet per second to find the time it takes for the ball to reach home plate.

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