Answer: 288.7 miles per minute.
Explanation:
Considering:
Distance = Rate / Time
We are given the distance as 2309.6 miles in orbit.
We can calculate the time required to travel 2309.6 miles by doing:
End time - Start time.
In this case it would be 9:31 - 9:23 = 8 minutes.
Therefore it takes 8 minutes to travel 2309.6 miles.
Now we need to find the Rate of Change in miles per minutes.
In other words we need how many miles the shuttle traveled every minute.
Right now we have the shuttle traveled 2309.6 miles in 8 minutes. To find how many traveled in 1 minute, we need to divide.
2309.6 / 8 = 288.7 miles per minute.