A scuba diver is 180 ft below sea level and rises to the surface at the rate of 30 ft/min. How long will the diver take to reach the surface?
You have two numbers. What do you think you should do with them?
add?
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divide?
What answer do you get?
d = V * t,
180 = 30 * t.
t = time in minutes.
To find out how long the diver will take to reach the surface, we need to calculate the time it takes for the diver to cover the distance from 180 ft below sea level to the surface.
The diver is currently 180 ft below sea level and needs to cover the entire distance to reach the surface, which is 0 ft. So the total distance the diver needs to travel is 180 ft.
The diver rises at a rate of 30 ft/min, which means the diver covers a distance of 30 ft every minute.
To find the time it takes to cover a certain distance, we can use the formula:
Time = Distance / Rate
In this case, the distance is 180 ft and the rate is 30 ft/min. So we can calculate the time it takes to reach the surface:
Time = 180 ft / 30 ft/min = 6 min
Therefore, the diver will take 6 minutes to reach the surface.