Question

a quarter horse can run 53.16 mile per hour. a garden snail moves at 0.02 miles per hour. how much faster is the quarter horse than the snail? ​

Answer 1

53.14

Explanation:

Subtract 0.02 from 0.06 and you get 0.04

Answer 2

The horse is 2658 times faster than the snail.

Explanation:

Givens

• The quarter horse can run 53.16 miles per hour.
• The garden snail moves at 0.02 miles per hour.

To know how much faster is the quarter horse than the snail, we just need to express as the following equation

`h=xs`

Where
`h` is the horse and
`s` is the snail, replacing each value we have

`53.16=0.02x`

Where
`x` represents the factor that makes the horse faster. Now we solve

`x=(53.16)/(0.02) \\ x=2,658`

Therefore, the horse is 2658 times faster than the snail.