The cheetah covered a distance of 195 yards in 6 seconds . The cheetah average speed in miles per hour can be computed below
Let us convert to the units we want to represent our final answer
1760 yards = 1 miles
195 yards = ?
cross multiply
distance in miles = 195/1760 miles
lets us convert the time
1 minutes = 60 seconds
6 seconds = 6/60 = 1/10 minutes
60 minutes = 1 hour
1/10 minutes = ? hour
cross multiply
[tex]\frac{\frac{1}{10}}{60}=\frac{1}{600}\text{ hours}[/tex]
Therefore, the average speed will be
[tex]\begin{gathered} \text{speed =}\frac{dis\tan ce}{\text{time}} \\ \text{speed}=\frac{\frac{195}{1760}}{\frac{1}{600}}=\frac{195}{1760}\times\frac{600}{1}=\frac{117000}{1760}=66.4772727273\approx66\text{ miles per hr} \end{gathered}[/tex]
