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Not Heidi

(1,288 posts) Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:21 PM Mar 2023

This is pathetic. I can't math. Grr

I was watching The Fugitive in the wee hours. In the beginning of the film, in the corrections department bus a guard says it's 20 miles to the prison and they should be there in 40 minutes.

I puzzled and puzzled and played with my calculator and damned if I could come up with how bloody fast they were going.

Pathetic.

How fast were they going?

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This is pathetic. I can't math. Grr (Original Post) Not Heidi Mar 2023 OP

30 mph Meadowoak Mar 2023 #1

Thank you! Not Heidi Mar 2023 #3

At 60 mph, that's a mile per minute. Since they are going Meadowoak Mar 2023 #4

OK! Not Heidi Mar 2023 #9

30 mph mobeau69 Mar 2023 #2

1/2 the minutes. So for 60 minutes it would be 30 miles. 30 miles/hr applegrove Mar 2023 #5

R*TD. R*T D. R*T EQUALS D. DAMMIT Lochloosa Mar 2023 #6

Weird keeps dropping the equal sign in the header. Lochloosa Mar 2023 #7

Yeah, this board doesn't allow symbols in the title line...nt Wounded Bear Mar 2023 #12

Wow...after 19 years you learn something new. Thanks Lochloosa Mar 2023 #14

On second thought, it does allow some emojis if posting from a phone, I guess... Wounded Bear Mar 2023 #19

Not pathetic at all AltairIV Mar 2023 #8

Oh, aren't you a kind soul? Not Heidi Mar 2023 #11

Just a gaseous emination from the ears. Prairie_Seagull Mar 2023 #15

Distance equals Rate x Time RoadRunner Mar 2023 #10

Did you puzzle and puzz 'til your puzzler was sore? Different Drummer Mar 2023 #13

I did, Dr Seuss Not Heidi Mar 2023 #16

They crash and end up at zero miles per hour. That's the important part to know. NNadir Mar 2023 #17

LOL Not Heidi Mar 2023 #18

Meadowoak

(5,545 posts)

1. 30 mph

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:23 PM

Mar 2023

Not Heidi

(1,288 posts)

3. Thank you!

Reply to Meadowoak (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:23 PM

Mar 2023

I'm 60 years old and could not, for the life of me, figure this out!

Meadowoak

(5,545 posts)

4. At 60 mph, that's a mile per minute. Since they are going

Reply to Not Heidi (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:27 PM

Mar 2023

20 miles in 40 minutes, half of 60 mph is 30 mph.

Not Heidi

(1,288 posts)

9. OK!

Reply to Meadowoak (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:38 PM

Mar 2023

Damn. At least I can change a tire.

Or I could, if I could lift one.

mobeau69

(11,144 posts)

2. 30 mph

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:23 PM

Mar 2023

applegrove

(118,653 posts)

5. 1/2 the minutes. So for 60 minutes it would be 30 miles. 30 miles/hr

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:30 PM

Mar 2023

Lochloosa

(16,064 posts)

6. R*TD. R*T D. R*T EQUALS D. DAMMIT

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:36 PM

Mar 2023

Rate times Time equals Distance.

Lochloosa

(16,064 posts)

7. Weird keeps dropping the equal sign in the header.

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:37 PM

Mar 2023

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)

12. Yeah, this board doesn't allow symbols in the title line...nt

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #7)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 08:20 PM

Mar 2023

Lochloosa

(16,064 posts)

14. Wow...after 19 years you learn something new. Thanks

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #12)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 10:11 PM

Mar 2023

Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)

19. On second thought, it does allow some emojis if posting from a phone, I guess...

Reply to Lochloosa (Reply #14)

Thu Mar 9, 2023, 12:49 AM

Mar 2023

I see them all the time. I post from my home PC, so I can't do that.

AltairIV

(383 posts)

8. Not pathetic at all

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:37 PM

Mar 2023

We've all had days and a problem like that. And in your own words it was in the wee hours of the morning.

Not Heidi

(1,288 posts)

11. Oh, aren't you a kind soul?

Reply to AltairIV (Reply #8)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:39 PM

Mar 2023

Thank you.

Prairie_Seagull

(3,320 posts)

15. Just a gaseous emination from the ears.

Reply to Not Heidi (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 10:38 PM

Mar 2023

Have them all the time, if you listen to my wife.

RoadRunner

(4,494 posts)

10. Distance equals Rate x Time

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 06:39 PM

Mar 2023

So, R = D/T

Or, Rate = Distance divided by time (in hours if you want MPH)

R = 20 divided by 40/60 = 30 MPH

Different Drummer

(7,615 posts)

13. Did you puzzle and puzz 'til your puzzler was sore?

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 10:05 PM

Mar 2023

Not Heidi

(1,288 posts)

16. I did, Dr Seuss

Reply to Different Drummer (Reply #13)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 10:58 PM

Mar 2023

NNadir

(33,518 posts)

17. They crash and end up at zero miles per hour. That's the important part to know.

Reply to Not Heidi (Original post)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 11:31 PM

Mar 2023

Harrison Ford however picks up lots of speed by jumping off a dam.

Not Heidi

(1,288 posts)

18. LOL

Reply to NNadir (Reply #17)

Wed Mar 8, 2023, 11:43 PM

Mar 2023

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