You nose out another runner to win the 100m dash. If your total time for the race was 11.800s you aced out the other runner by .001s by how many meters did you win?

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campbell_st · Answer

find the distance you travel every second

100/11.8

then find 1/1000 of that distance

anonymous · Answer

Okay... I got the velocity but I'm confused with how I get .001 of a second

campbell_st · Answer

ok.. so you travel 8.4758 metres per second... 

if you divide the distance by 1000 it will tell you the distance travelled per 0.001 seconds... 

so 1 x dstance/0.001 seconds is the willing margin... as you will by 0.001 seconds...

anonymous · Answer

So do you divide it by 1000 because 1s equals .001 times 1000

anonymous · Answer

Wait so you won by .000001m?

campbell_st · Answer

no you won by 0.0084758 metres

anonymous · Answer

Okay