Question

A parachutist's rate during a free fall reaches 165 feet per second. What is this rate in meters per second? At this rate, how many meters will the parachutist fall during 5 seconds of free fall? In your computations, assume that 1 meter is equal to 3.3 feet. Do not round your answers.

Answer 1

Answer: $250\ m$

Step-by-step explanation:

Assuming that:

$1\ m=3.3\ ft$

We can make the conversion from feet per second to meters per second with this procedure:

$(165\ \frac{ft}{s})(\frac{1\ m}{3.3\ ft})=50\ \frac{m}{s}$

Let be "x" the amount of meters the parachutist will fall during 5 seconds of free fall

Knowing that in 1 second the parachutist falls 50 meters, we can calculate "x" by solving the following multiplication:

$x=(50\ \frac{m}{s})(5\ s)\\\\x=250\ m$