C. Courtney got a remote control car for her birthday. It is a metallic
purple with chrome wheels that are 1 1/2 inches in diameter. She said to
her friend, Dylan, “My remote control car goes faster than my mom's
car on the freeway.” “No way,” said Dylan. Courtney said, “I will prove it to
you.” Courtney measured off a distance of 115 inches. Dylan said, “Okay, I
will time how long it takes your car to travel that distance. I have a stopwatch
feature on my watch.” Courtney raced her remote control car over the
115-inch distance. Dylan said, “Wow, that only took 3.21 seconds. That seems
really fast.” “See, I told you,” said Courtney. “But really how fast is it going?”
answered Dylan. Determine the speed of Courtney's remote control car and
compare its speed to that of a regular car traveling on the freeway. Explain
how you found your solution. Why might the manufacturer get away with
advertising that the remote control car Travels Faster Than Life?

please help!!!!

[tex]\dfrac{115\ inches}{3.21\ seconds}\times \dfrac{1\ foot}{12\ inches}\times \dfrac{1\ mile}{5280\ feet}\times \dfrac{60\ seconds}{1\ minute}\times \dfrac{60\ minutes}{1\ hour}\\ \\\\=\dfrac{414,000\ miles}{203,385.6\ hours}\\\\\\=\dfrac{2.0\ miles}{1\ hour}[/tex]

astha8579 astha8579 · Answer 2 · 2022-01-07T05:46:17+01:00

Speed of Courtney's remote control car is: 2 mph

Courtney's remote control car is slower than an average freeway car since averagely the speed of a car on the freeway is usually 60 mph.

Given that:

Distance covered by Courtney's car = 115 inches

Time taken to cover that distance = 3.21 seconds

Converting inches to miles and seconds to hours:

[tex]1 inch \approx 0.0000158 miles\\115 inches = 115 \times 0.000158 miles\\=\approx 0.00182 miles\\\\3.21 seconds = \dfrac{1}{3600} \times 3.21 \: hours\\= 0.00089 \: hours\\[/tex]

Thus speed of Courtney's car can be calculated as

[tex]Speed = \dfrac{distance}{time}\\\\= \dfrac{0.00182}{0.00089} mph\\\\= 2.089 mph \approx 2 mph[/tex]

Thus Speed of Courtney's car is approx 2 miles per hour whereas the average speed of a car on a freeway is about 60 miles per hour.

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