How many seconds will it take for a car that is traveling at

Please help solve this one...
How many seconds will it take for a car that is traveling at a constant rate of 45 miles per hour to travel a distance of 22 yards?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 11
E. 12

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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:59 pm

imane81 wrote:Please help solve this one...
How many seconds will it take for a car that is traveling at a constant rate of 45 miles per hour to travel a distance of 22 yards?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 11
E. 12

What's the source? I keep getting 1. I'm converting the units. 22 yards equals .0125 miles. Convert 45 miles per hour to 45/3600 miles per second. Set up the distance rate and time formula and I get 1. Where I am going wrong?

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by ajith » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:42 pm

imane81 wrote:Please help solve this one...
How many seconds will it take for a car that is traveling at a constant rate of 45 miles per hour to travel a distance of 22 yards?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 11
E. 12

1 Mile = 1760 yard [ I think if this question is asked, we will also get this information]

45 miles per hour = 45*1760 yards per hour = 45*1760/3600 = 176/8 = 22 yards/ sec

Apparently to travel 22 yards it will take 1 second

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by shashank.ism » Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:24 pm

osirus0830 wrote:
imane81 wrote:Please help solve this one...
How many seconds will it take for a car that is traveling at a constant rate of 45 miles per hour to travel a distance of 22 yards?
A. 8
B. 9
C. 10
D. 11
E. 12

What's the source? I keep getting 1. I'm converting the units. 22 yards equals .0125 miles. Convert 45 miles per hour to 45/3600 miles per second. Set up the distance rate and time formula and I get 1. Where I am going wrong?

22 yard = 0.012 5 mile
so time = (0.0125/45)x3600= 1sec

Imane will \you check your options from the source...I think ans is 1sec.

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by lsimons » Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:20 pm

it doesn't seem logical that it would take a car at the speed of 45 mph 8 seconds to go 22 yards. football players make better time then that.

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by GmatKiss » Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:13 am

Is this a valid GMAT question!
I dont think so. Please post the source of this question.

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by bobbyf » Sat Jan 28, 2017 10:32 am

This question comes from the GMAT prep exam pack 2. She did not copy the question correctly, in the official question we have to find the time in seconds for 220 yards NOT 22. Hence answer 10 would be correct.

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by DavidG@VeritasPrep » Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:44 pm

See here for another official rate conversion question: https://www.beatthegmat.com/distance-problem-t19147.html

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