March 1: when a jet flies at the speed of sound,it is flying at march 1. The speed of sound:sound takes 5 seconds to travel one mile in the air where a jet flies. How many minutes does it take a pilot flying a jet at march 1 to travel 24omiles?(Assume that the pilot is flying in a straight horizontal line between two points.)

First of all, it is Mach not March.

March is one of the months in a year.
Secondly, you have 24omiles.
Did you mean 240 miles?
I will assume you did.

To go 240 miles would take 5x240 seconds or 1200 seconds
= 20 minutes

To find out how many minutes it takes for a pilot flying a jet at the speed of sound to travel 240 miles in a straight horizontal line, we need to determine the time it takes to travel one mile and then multiply that time by 240.

Given that it takes 5 seconds for sound to travel one mile in the air, we can convert this to minutes by dividing by 60:

5 seconds ÷ 60 = 0.0833 minutes

So, it takes approximately 0.0833 minutes (or about 5 seconds) for sound to travel one mile in the air.

Now, we can calculate the time it takes for the pilot to travel 240 miles by multiplying the time for one mile by the number of miles:

0.0833 minutes/mile * 240 miles = 19.992 minutes

Rounding to the nearest minute, the pilot would take approximately 20 minutes to travel 240 miles at the speed of sound (March 1).