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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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a truck he needs to get to comic con by

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two o'clock so he doesn't miss patrick stewart's Big speech

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It takes his car going in an average speed of

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forty five miles an hour twelve minutes to reach its

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destination from a designated starting point How far apart in

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kilometers is the destination away from the starting point and

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here the potential answers with okay so what is this

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question asking it's one of those distance time rape problems

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that we hold so near and dear to our hearts

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since we know miles per hour and we're given another

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piece of information that's in terms of minutes it would

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probably be a good idea to get everything on the

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same page If our trekkie friend is going forty five

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miles an hour how fast is he travelling per minute

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Well he's going forty five miles in sixty minutes so

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we're looking at forty five sixty it's or three force

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of a mile in one minute it takes him twelve

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minutes to reach his destination and twelve times three force

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equals nine so we travelled nine miles big deal but

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we can't live long and prosper just yet Let's not

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fall for choice see which is clearly trying to catch

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us in a vulcan trap question is asking for kilometers

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not miles We're told that one miles about one point

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six kilometers so let's multiply nine by one point six

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to get fourteen point four kilometres our answer is d

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as in deep space nine lives long and shmoop

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