A hummingbird flaps its wings 5,000 times a minute when hovering in place. How many times will it flap its wing in 15 seconds?
The hummingbird will flap its wings ___ times.
The hummingbird flaps its wings 5,000 times per minute. To find out how many times it will flap its wings in 15 seconds, we need to convert 15 seconds to minutes.
There are 60 seconds in a minute, so 15 seconds is equal to 15/60 = 0.25 minutes.
Therefore, the hummingbird will flap its wings 5,000 times per minute × 0.25 minutes = 1250 times in 15 seconds.
So, the hummingbird will flap its wings 1250 times.
To find the number of times the hummingbird will flap its wings in 15 seconds, we need to convert the given rate of flapping wings into flaps per second.
Given:
Flaps per minute = 5,000
To convert flaps per minute to flaps per second, we divide by 60 (since there are 60 seconds in a minute):
Flaps per second = 5,000 / 60 = 83.333...
Therefore, the hummingbird flaps its wings 83.333... times per second.
To find the number of times it will flap its wings in 15 seconds, we simply multiply the flaps per second by the number of seconds:
Number of flaps in 15 seconds = Flaps per second * 15
So, the hummingbird will flap its wings approximately 1250 times in 15 seconds.
To find the number of times the hummingbird will flap its wings in 15 seconds, we can first calculate how many times it flaps its wings in 1 second and then multiply that by 15.
If the hummingbird flaps its wings 5,000 times in 1 minute, we can calculate how many times it flaps its wings in 1 second by dividing 5,000 by 60 (since there are 60 seconds in a minute).
So, the hummingbird flaps its wings approximately 83.33 times in 1 second.
Now, to find the number of times it flaps its wings in 15 seconds, we can multiply 83.33 by 15.
Therefore, the hummingbird will flap its wings approximately 1,249.95 times in 15 seconds.
Rounding to the nearest whole number, the hummingbird will flap its wings approximately 1,250 times in 15 seconds.
So, the hummingbird will flap its wings 1,250 times.