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A runner is running 5 miles per hour. how many feet is the runner running per second.

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For this problem, you want to make conversions from meters to feet and hours to seconds. So, you start out with 5 miles/ hour, and you divide by a unit factor of 5280 feet / miles, getting 5*5280 feet/ hour. Then, you multiply by a unit factor of 1 hour / 60*60 seconds, getting 5*5280/360 feet/second. Simplify, and your final answer is
73.33.
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