Question

A severe storm on January 10, 1992, caused a cargo ship near the Aleutian Islands to spill 29,000 rubber ducks and other bath toys into the ocean. Eight months later, hundreds of rubber ducks began to appear along a shoreline roughly 1800 miles away. What was the approximate average speed (in mi/h and m/s) of the ocean current that carried the ducks to shore? ...?

Answer 1

8 month = 5760 hours

Velocity = distance / time

v = 1800/5760 = 0.3125 mi/h

0.3125 mi/h * 1h/3600s * 5280f /mi * 0.3048 m/f = 0.1397 m/s

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