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A car is traveling at 65mi/hr. What is the car’s speed in feet per second?

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65 mph means in 1 hour you drive 65 miles.

To find out how many feet you drive in 1 second you need to convert the above in terms of feet and secs

1 hour = 60 minutes and 1 minute has 60 secs
So 1 hour has 60* 60 secs = 3600 secs.

1 mile - 5280 feet
65 miles = 65*5280 feet

So in 3600 secs you are driving 65 * 5280 feet

or in 1 sec you can drive (65 * 5280)/3600
which is equal to 95.33 ft

or you are driving at 95.33 ft/sec
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