Question

How do you convert 2.7 meters per second to feet per minute?

Answer 1

First of all, you can convert meters to feet. Since one meter is `3.2808399` feet, this means that `2.7` meters are `2.7 \times 3.2808399` feet, which is `8.85826772` feet.

Now, if you know that in a second you travel `8.85826772` feet, how many feet you will travel in a minute? Assuming the speed to be constant, the distance traveled in a minute will be `60` times the distance traveled in a second, so `60 \times 8.85826772=531.4960632`, which is the final answer, since now we are expressing speed with feet per minute.

In case you wondered, this is `0.26` the speed at which Usain Bolt runs his best `100` meters :)