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A person is walking 3 miles per hour.
What is their rate in feet per second?

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The only work that needs to be done here is conversions,

First convert miles to feet (conversion factor is 5280)

3 miles = 15840 feet, then divide by 360 to turn hours to seconds (hours to minutes to seconds) thus leaving the person walking at 4.4 feet per second.

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