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Posted by Juanita on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 12:28am.

The longest distance in a track and field event is the 10 km run. The record holder for the women's 10 km run is Wang Junxia of China. Assuming that Wang Junxia ran a distance of 10.00 km with an average speed of 5.644 m/s, what was her time? (Hint: Need to convert to the same units first.

physics - drwls, Friday, January 20, 2012 at 6:13am
10,000 m/(5.644 m/s) = 1771.8 s
= 29.53 minutes
= 29 minutes 32 seconds

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