Question

Only 33 seconds after dropping her fishing line into the water, Lila spotted a tuna. The tuna was swimming at a velocity of 1.5meterspersecond toward her fishhook. At this velocity, how long did it take the tuna to swim 9.3meters?

Answer 1

We can use the formula:

distance = velocity × time

We know the distance the tuna swam (9.3 meters) and its velocity (1.5 meters per second), so we can solve for the time it took:

time = distance / velocity

time = 9.3 / 1.5

time ≈ 6.2 seconds

So it took the tuna approximately 6.2 seconds to swim 9.3 meters towards Lila's fishhook.