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A high speed elevator can rise 500 feet in 30 seconds. Which expression represents the rate, in feet per minute, of the elevator?

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The answer to your question is 1,000 feet per minute because if you multiply 30 by 2 you get 60 seconds which is one minute and so you do the same to the 500 feet and multiply it by 2 and you get 1,000 so it would be 1,000 feet per minute
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Actually, I think that its 500*2
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