It takes a baseball player 16 seconds to round the bases and make it back to home plate. If it is 360 feet to go around all the bases, what is the player's average speed?

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It takes a baseball player 16 seconds to round the bases and make it back to home plate. If it is 360 feet to go around all the bases, what is the player's average speed?

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Answer 1 · 2017-09-22T11:08:11

Speed $= 6.858 m$ $=6.858m$ $/ s$ $/s$

Explanation:

The formula for working out speed is
$v = \frac{d}{t}$ $v=d/t$ , where $v$ $v$ is the speed in m/s, $d =$ $d=$ distance in metres and $t$ $t$ equals time in seconds. In this question we see that $d = 360$ $d=360$ feet $= 109.728 m$ $=109.728m$ , and $t = 16$ $t=16$ seconds. Plug these into the formula and we get
$v = \frac{109.728}{16}$ $v=109.728/16$
$v = 6.858 m$ $v=6.858m$ $/ s$ $/s$ . Therefore the average speed of the player is 6.858 m/s.

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It takes a baseball player 16 seconds to round the bases and make it back to home plate. If it is 360 feet to go around all the bases, what is the player's average speed?

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