How can I convert m/s to mi/h using only simple unit ratios?

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The discussion focuses on converting meters per second (m/s) to miles per hour (mi/h) using simple unit ratios. Participants emphasize the importance of writing unit ratios that allow for cancellation of units, specifically ensuring that one ratio has miles (mi) in the denominator and another has meters (m) in the numerator. The correct approach involves expressing the conversion as a series of unit fractions, ultimately simplifying to achieve the desired conversion. The only viable answer to the posed problem is identified as option e, which contains the necessary unit ratio.

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Ok, i know how to convert to and from the metric system and how to convert within, but what exactly am i supposed to do with this. Notice I am not asking for it solved, but guidance on how to solve, bc this seems like a really stupid way for us to have to convert with extra steps added and mixed in. Also there is not much to work out by hand i believe other than writing and cancelling out. thank you. also i believe number seven is A
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Suppose you were stranded on a desert island and didn't have a table of conversion factors, and suppose also that you'd had a coconut fall from a tree and lost your memory of all but the most basic conversion factors. Using your remaining knowledge of simple unit ratios (12 inches / 1 ft, for example), you could write one of the expressions in #7 to convert m/s to mi/h.

To start with mi/h and end with m/s, one must write a series of simple unit ratios, one of which has mi in the denominator (so as to 'cancel' mi from the final expression) and another of which that has m in the numerator (so we end up with m/s). The only answer to #7 that could be correct (can't see all of it) is answer e; its the only one that has a unit ratio with m in the numerator of one of the factors.

This is just an exercise in writing and simplifying unit ratios, aka unit fractions.
 

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