How many waves pass a boat in 55 seconds?

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Physics 11 is so confusing ...

A Person,resting in a boat, notices that 16 waves pass the boat every 38 seconds ... HOw many waves would pass the boat in 55 seconds?
 
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A boy does 0 homework problems in 16 minutes. How many homework problems will he complete in 1 week? :-)
 
in order to answer that you need to find howmany waves in a second (16/38) which equals to *.42* meanning there will be .42 waves passing every second. then you just multiply it by 55 (.42*55) which equals to 23.2 (23.15789473684...
 
A boy does 0 homework problems in 16 minutes. How many homework problems will he complete in 1 week?

He better hope that one isn't on the test! :smile:
 
hmmm the boy does 0 homework in one week, because 7 days in one week and 24 hours in one day so: 24*7=168, then 60 minutes in an hour, 60*168=10080, and he does 0 in 16 minutes so, 10080/16=630, then 630*0=0, that's it. :smile:
 
cdhotfire said:
hmmm the boy does 0 homework in one week, because 7 days in one week and 24 hours in one day so: 24*7=168, then 60 minutes in an hour, 60*168=10080, and he does 0 in 16 minutes so, 10080/16=630, then 630*0=0, that's it. :smile:

Yeah, but what if his rate grows exponentially? :wink:
 
well that was not part of the problem, it says he does 0 homework in 16 min, so I deduce that he does 0 in 16 min. So it cannot increase exponentially if 0=0. :biggrin:
 
okay bottom line, let's stop fooling around. :rolleyes:
 
puregoodboi said:
A Person,resting in a boat, notices that 16 waves pass the boat every 38 seconds ... HOw many waves would pass the boat in 55 seconds?

16 waves x waves
----------- = ---------------
38 seconds 55 seconds


solve this

you should get
23.16 waves
 
tom thxs for that, but problem was all ready solved. Look above, but thxs for the try. :smile: