Calculating Distance Traveled When Reacting to an Emergency

[Draggu]

Homework Statement

Use your reaction time to determine how far a car you are driving at 100km/h would travel between the time you see an emergency and the time you slam on your brakes.

Homework Equations

The Attempt at a Solution

Given:

v = 100km/h
d = ?
t = 0.27 s

d = v*t
d = 100 * 0.27
=27?

Somehow I think this is wrong.

 

[hage567]

Watch your units. They need to be consistent with each other to get a meaningful answer.

 

[Draggu]

Watch your units. They need to be consistent with each other to get a meaningful answer.

Ah true, so 100 * 0.000075
= 0.0075

Therefore, i will travel 0.0075 kilometres during that time.