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Dean
March 3rd, 2003, 00:41
If a australian illegal immagrant ran 50 meters away from womera in 9.86 secounds, how fast was the kid traveling in:

Meters/S
KM/H

?

[this is a serious question]

limited188
March 3rd, 2003, 00:58
In all seriousness.

Meters per seconds: 50 meters / 9.86 seconds = # in m/s
1000 meters = 1 kilometers
Kilometers / seconds: [50 m (1 km /1000 m )] 9.86 seconds = # in km/s

edit:
Kilometers / H: [KM/S] * 3600 = # Km/H

Kaliber
March 3rd, 2003, 00:59
50/9.86= ~5.071
((50/9.86)/1000)*60 =~ 0.3042
~5.071 m/sec
~0.3042 km/h

I hope its right :P

n7of9
March 3rd, 2003, 00:59
don't you have a calculator??? :p

limited188
March 3rd, 2003, 01:02
Then again, I might be wrong, I don't know how fast an australian immigrant can run. Sometimes fast and sometimes slow maybe?

Dean
March 3rd, 2003, 01:07
Woh i run 5 meters a secound

[scenerio different]