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Degrees, minutes and seconds 2020-02-21
From Jonathan:
If a cone has an angle of 22 degrees, when i place it flat on a surface, the new resulting central angle is now at 68.69123834, but how come when i saw it on my friend it say 68 degree and 40 minutes, what is this minute?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Revolutions per minute 2014-10-24
From Edward:
Hello; I have a 28.2 inch diameter tire; do not worry about engine RPM or gear ratios, please tell me what the RPM of that tire is at 8 MPH and 64 MPH. Thank you.

Sincerely; Edward

Answered by Penny Nom.
Angular speed 2014-06-29
From andrea:
a wheel having a radius of 10cm rotates such that the linear speed at its rim is 30mls. what is the angular speed of the wheel in rpm?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Miles per minute to miles per hour 2013-09-08
From Adam:
Convert 250 miles per min to miles per hour
Answered by Penny Nom.
Minutes and seconds 2012-08-29
From Casey:
I have to write a variable equation. The questions says there are 60 seconds. but we need to write and equation to solve for minutes. Is it 1/60 or 1/s
Answered by Robert Dawson.
How many rpm does a 3.5 in. diameter wheel turn at 7 miles per hour? 2011-12-06
From Al:
how many rpm does a 3.5 in. diameter wheel turn at 7 miles per hour
Answered by Penny Nom.
Angular speed 2010-12-12
From Jason:
7 in. pulley traveling @ 175ft/sec. What is the rpm?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Penny Nom.
Hours minutes and seconds 2010-11-26
From beket:
I need to turn 1.486588292 into real time hours minutes and seconds. I keep getting multiple answers. Online conversions give me 1 hour 29 minutes and either 11 or 12 seconds. On the calculator I get 1 hour 29 minutes and 20 seconds. Can you explain how to turn this decimal into time?
Answered by Robert Dawson and Penny Nom.
The distance travelled by a minute hand 2010-03-06
From Patric:
How much distance will the minutes hand of length 14mm of a clock cover in moving from 5 to 10?
Answered by Penny Nom.
A minute hand 2009-11-05
From Pardha:
A minute hand of table clock is 3cms long. How far its tip move in 20 minutes
Answered by Penny Nom.
The current in a river 2008-06-12
From Joi:
To approximate the speed of the current of a river, a circular paddle wheel with radius 4 feet is lowered into the water. If the current causes the wheel to rotate at a speed of 10 revolutions per minute, what is the speed of the current? Express your answer in miles per hour.
Answered by Harley Weston.
1 mile per minute 2008-04-01
From jennifer:
If you are traveling at 1 mile per minute how fast would you need to be going
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
How long will it take to pump the water out of the basement? 2008-04-01
From Shiva:
I need to pump water out of a flooded basement, using two 50 (gpm) pumps. The basement has the dimensions shown and is flooded to a depth of 16 inches. How long will it take to pump the water out of the basement?
Answered by Harley Weston.
Is there a practical use for radian measure? 2007-10-26
From Paula:
Is there a practical use for radian measure in any profession? Which professions might us radian as opposed to degree measure?
Answered by Harley Weston.
Metres per minute to miles per hour 2007-09-20
From Angela:
If a person is traveling 150 meters per minute, what is their speed in miles per hour?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Harley Weston.
How many gallons per minute? 2007-09-12
From Diane:
HI I have a natural water spring and I am trying to determine how many gallons per minute will flow in an 8" pipe? I know one gallon is 231 cubic inches and V=nr2h - so if i had one foot of 8" pipe it would hold 2.6 gallons but I'm looking for the flow rate of how many gallons per minute? Thanks for your help.
Answered by Stephen la Rocque.
The number of minutes in n hours 2007-08-28
From sharquea:
the number of minutes in n hours
Answered by Leeanne Boehm and Stephen La Rocque.
Angular speed 2007-01-18
From Cristina:
A car is moving at a rate of 50 miles per hour, and the diameter of its wheels is 2.5 feet.
a) Find the number of revolutions per minute the wheels are rotating.
b) Find the angular speed of the wheels in radians per minute.

Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
What size pulley would I need? 2006-12-29
From Chris:
If I have a motor that's spinning at 950 RPM's with a pulley that's 6in diameter with a belt running to a generator, What size pulley would I need on the generator to make it spin at 3600 RPM
Answered by Penny Nom.
How old would i be in minutes 2006-08-09
From Mariah:
i would like to know how old would i be in minutes if i was thirteen years old including leap years
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Nine minutes 2004-09-02
From A student:
You have two hour glasses-one measures 7 minutes and one measures 4 minutes.How can you time 9 minutes?
Answered by Penny Nom.
The hour hand and the minute hand 2003-12-17
From Minnie:
When you are looking at the clock at 12:00 the hour hand and minute hand are exactly together. (one on top of the other). Between 1:00pm and 1:15pm there is another time when the hour and minute hands are exactly together again.
Answered by Penny Nom.
A rock on a string 2003-10-26
From A student:
a rock on a 4' string is rotated at 80 rpm. what is the linear speed in feet per second? in miles per hour?
Answered by Penny Nom.
60 seconds in a minute 2001-10-11
From Andy:
I am a fourth grade teacher. Yesterday my students asked "Why are there 60 seconds in a minute?" Which also led to 60 minutes in an hour? I have had trouble determining why the number 60? Any help would be appreciated.
Answered by Penny Nom.
A phone bill 2001-06-18
From Janet:
What is the formuala to calculate cost per minute?

Here is the data below

# of calls - 238
# of minutes - 443
cost - $70.06


Answered by Penny Nom.
Law of cosines 2001-02-20
From Emily:
I missed a few days of class and I can't figure out how to solve Law of Cosines problems. I have the notes and formulas but I can't figure out how to do the math involved to answer the problems. I am also getting confused about how to use degrees and seconds in the Law of Sine and Cosine. I can't seem to get the correct answers and I don't really know how to solve them and enter them into my TI 86.
Answered by Harley Weston.
PreCalculus 2000-08-09
From Angela:
Use absolute values to define the interval or pair of intervals on the real line.

 
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A car is moving at the rate of 50 miles per hour, and the diameter of its wheels is 2.5 feet.
a) Find the number of revolutions per minute that the wheels are rotating.
b) Find the angular speed of the wheels in radians per minute.


Answered by Harley Weston.
Calculs de minutes en heures 2009-02-23
From Denis:
Je suis en train de suivre un cours en navigation maritime et je dois changer souvent des minutes en heures. ex: 495 minutes = ?h??

Je désire avoir le cheminement le plus simple a faire pour ce type de calcul. Je ne travail pas avec excell. Je veux une formule a faire seulement avec une calculatrice élémentaire. Merci pour votre aide, j'apprécie beaucoup votre coup de main. Denis.

Answered by Claude Tardif.
calcul heures et minutes 2008-06-08
From cadare:
je n'arrive pas à comprendre et resoudre mes problèmes d'heures et de minutes,ex parti à 22h30, j'arrive à 7h15 quelle est la durée du trajet
Answered by Claude Tardif.
Combien d'heures et de minutes 2007-05-30
From masson:
pouvez vous m'aider pour resoudre ce probleme car je suis perdue combien d'heures et de minutes dormez vous si vous vous couchez a 22h15 et si vous vous levez a 6h57? car en suivant le raisonnement de la soustraction d'heure je trouve 15h12 et je trouve cela pas logique merci d'avance de votre aide
Answered by Claude Tardif.
addition et soustraction des heures, minutes, secondes 2006-11-22
From Halnais:
13 h. 25 mn + 18 h. 06 mn
23 h. 31 mn + 19 h. 33 mn


je ne me souviens plus très bien de ces opérations, faut-il additioner les heures à part puis les minutes, etc. pour les heures je crois qu'il ne faut pas dépasser 24 h. Pourriez-vous m'aider, et me donner le résultat, merci infiniment.

Answered by Claude Tardif.
convertir une duree en heure et minute 2005-01-12
From Sébastien:
pouvez vous me donner la formule permettant de convertir une duree en heure et minute precise pour exemple : 589 minutes donne 10h35min. Quelle serait donc la formule pour passer directement de 589 min a 10h35 (sans avoir 9h81)?
Answered by Claude Tardif.
 
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