MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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1 mile
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15 miles
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30 miles
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50 miles
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Detailed explanation-1: -To travel 15 miles would take 15 minutes. another solution is 15 miles is 1/4 the distance a car doing 60 will travel in one hour, so it will take 1/4 an hour to go 15 miles, or 15 minutes.
Detailed explanation-2: -0.43 hours or approximately 26 minutes.
Detailed explanation-3: -Per day, we travel 1.6 million miles. This is farther than the distance that most people drive motor vehicles in a lifetime. (The average car in America is driven about 12, 000 miles per year.) We can find the Earth’s orbital speed by dividing 1.6 million miles by 24 hours, yielding 66, 700 miles per hour.
Detailed explanation-4: -Adults walk at an average speed of 3 to 4 miles per hour, which equates roughly to 1 mile every 15 to 20 minutes.