To answer this question, we know that 1km equals 1000m
and 1 hour is equal to 60 minutes. In the same way 1 minute equals 60 sec onds
So we have to change the units of elephant speed to km per hour.
For this we do the following procedure:
1) we multiply 6.9 m / s by the conversion factor from meters to kilometers (1 km / 1000m)
[tex]6.9 \frac{m}{s} *\frac{1 km}{1000 m}=0.0069\frac{km}{s} \\[/tex]
2) The result obtained is multiplied by the conversion factor from seconds to minutes (60s / 1min)
[tex]0.0069 \frac{km}{s} *\frac{60 s}{1 min}=0.414 \frac{km}{min}\\[/tex]
3) The result obtained is multiplied by the conversion factor from minutes to hours (60min / 1hr)
[tex]0.414\frac{km}{min}*\frac{60 min}{1 h}= 24.84\frac{km}{h} \\[/tex]
The answer is 24.84 km / h
You can skip step 2) multiplying 0.0069 km / s by the conversion factor from seconds to hours (3600 s / 1h)
