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If you are driving at a rate of 55 miles per hour, about how man feet per second are you traveling

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There's a pertinent identity: 60 mph = 88 ft/sec.

Thus,

55 mph 88 ft/sec

------------ * -------------- = 80.1 ft/sec

1 60 mph

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I believe you are travelling about 81 (80 and 2/3 to be exact) feet per second.

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