Question

Tomos is a skier he completed a ski race in 2 min 6 seconds the race was 525 m in length. tomos assumes that his average speed is the same for each race. using this assumption, work out how long tomos should take to complete an 800 m race give your answer in minutes and seconds

Answer 1

3 min 12 seconds

Explanation:

Using the conversion

1 minute = 60 seconds, then

2 min 6 seconds = (2 × 60) + 6 = 120 + 6 = 126 seconds

Divide 126 by 525 then multiply by 800, that is

time =
`(126)/(525)` × 800 = 192 seconds = 3 min 12 seconds