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How many miles do you travel every mintue if you are going 55 mph?

If you’re traveling at a constant speed of 55 mph, how long does it take you to travel a mile?

A little less than one mile per minute - after all, if you were traveling at 60 mph, you would travel 60 miles in 1 hour, or 60 miles in 60 minutes, or 1 mile per minute.

traveling at 55 would be just a bit slower than that.

To be exact - 55 miles in 60 minutes = 27.5 miles in 30 minutes, or 2.75 miles in 3 minutes, or 0.91666 miles in 1 minute.

That’s miles per minute - the previous answerer calculated minutes per mile, which is different.

6 Responses to “How many miles do you travel every mintue if you are going 55 mph?”

  1. Paul C says:

    set it up as a ratio. 1 minute(for one mile at 60 mph)/60 mph = x minute(for one mile at 55mph)/55 mph.
    it basically ends up as 60/55 which is equal to roughly 1.09 minutes per mile at 55 mph.
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  2. honky275 says:

    A little less than one mile per minute - after all, if you were traveling at 60 mph, you would travel 60 miles in 1 hour, or 60 miles in 60 minutes, or 1 mile per minute.

    traveling at 55 would be just a bit slower than that.

    To be exact - 55 miles in 60 minutes = 27.5 miles in 30 minutes, or 2.75 miles in 3 minutes, or 0.91666 miles in 1 minute.

    That’s miles per minute - the previous answerer calculated minutes per mile, which is different.
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  3. wsac says:

    Miles traveled at 55 MPH is 0.91666666

    At constant speed of 55 MPH …. it takes 65.45454546 seconds or 1 min. 5.45454546 seconds to travel one mile.
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  4. Atomic says:

    55/60 = 0.916 Miles per minute
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  5. who is #1? says:

    55/60=.919999997 miles per minute
    60/55= 1.090909091 minutes per mile
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  6. Justin says:

    really? this is like elementary math. I think everyone should know that there are 60 minutes in an hour, so if you’re going 55 miles in one hour isnt the answer pretty obvious???
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