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A spider travels across a driveway 3.6 m wide with a speed of 0.14m/s. How long will it take to cross the driveway?

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The spider will cross the driveway 25.71 in seconds.

It's a conversion problem, so, in order to solve it, we need to convert the units of the given information. Let's convert the given speed (in cm/s) to m/s.

We know that: 1m=100cm

So, converting we have: 14(cm)/(s)*(1m)/(100cm)=0.14(m)/(s)

Then, calculating the time, we have: distance=speed*time\\\\3.6m=0.14(m)/(s)*time\\\\time=(3.6m)/(0.14(m)/(s))=25.71s

We have that the spider will cross the driveway in 25.71 seconds.
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