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johnqwertyful
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So is that 2 dollar/(mile/hour)=2 dollar hour/mile? What's a dollar hour? Is there a better way of handling this?
So is that 2 dollar/(mile/hour)=2 dollar hour/mile? What's a dollar hour? Is there a better way of handling this?
But how do the units work out? Is "mph" now somehow an irreducible unit?You are over thinking it. It's just $2 per mph, so if I can run 12mph, which the latest marathon world record setter did recently, then you own me $24.
The unit is $/mph. The others are either gibberish or just plain wrong. You are trying to attach meaning to them, but they do not have the meaning you are attaching to them. IE: 1 mile per 4 hours is 1/4 mph and gets you paid $.50. Your alternative is just plain wrong. By flipping-over the mph to make h/mi, you are getting rid of the "per" while pretending not to.Well to manipulate naively, 1 dollar/(x mile/y hour)=y hour dollar/x mile=y/x hour dollar/mile so we are at the first question.
However, with this you run into a problem. If you run 1 mile per 4 hours, you would run 4 times as slowly as someone who ran 1 mile per 1 hour, but you would get paid 4 times as much.
So is that 2 dollar/(mile/hour)=2 dollar hour/mile? What's a dollar hour? Is there a better way of handling this?
I took it as the second one and was hoping to make $20 that way!I take it you mean you'll pay $2 for every mile a person can run in one hour?
In other words, you're not going to pay Usain Bolt $50 for running 100 meters in 8.95 seconds?
Make an equation out of itto see whatt is going on.So is that 2 dollar/(mile/hour)=2 dollar hour/mile? What's a dollar hour? Is there a better way of handling this?