2014 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 8
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A truck travels feet every seconds. There are feet in a yard. How many yards does the truck travel in minutes?
Solution
Converting feet to yards and minutes to second, we see that the truck travels yards every seconds for seconds. We see that he does cycles of yards. Multiplying, we get , or , or .
Solution 2
We set a proportion by letting the being the number of feet the truck travels in minutes.
Remember is the number of feet the truck travels, so we divide by to convert to yards.
, which corresponds to
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