A person riding a bicycle is moving at a speed of 15 miles per hour. How many feet does this person cover in 10 seconds? (1 mile = 5280 feet)

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To find out how many feet the person travels in 10 seconds, we first convert the speed from miles per hour to feet per second. Since there are 5280 feet in a mile and 3600 seconds in an hour, we can calculate the speed in feet per second as follows:

Speed in feet per second =

15 \text{ miles/hour} \times \frac{5280 \text{ feet/mile}}{3600 \text{ seconds/hour}} = 22 \text{ feet/second}

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Your fluency with the order of operations, fractions, decimals, and basic number sense — the foundation every quant question leans on.

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