{"id":205915,"date":"2025-03-26T05:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=205915"},"modified":"2025-03-26T05:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:32:54","slug":"we-know-a-speed-boat-can-travel-at-33-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/26\/we-know-a-speed-boat-can-travel-at-33-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"We know a speed boat can travel at 33 knots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We know a speed boat can travel at 33 knots. How long (in minutes) will it take to cross the Chesapeake Bay at a place where the bay is 24 miles across? 1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour; 1 nautical mile = 6076 feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Answer:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The time it takes for the speed boat to cross the Chesapeake Bay, which is 24 miles across, is <strong>41.5 minutes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To solve this, we first convert all necessary units to be consistent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Understand the speed in miles per hour:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The speed of the boat is given as <strong>33 knots<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Since <strong>1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour<\/strong> and <strong>1 nautical mile = 6076 feet<\/strong>, we first convert nautical miles to statute miles.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1 nautical mile \u2248 1.151 statute miles<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thus, the boat&#8217;s speed in statute miles per hour:<br>[<br>33 \\times 1.151 = 37.98 \\text{ miles per hour}<br>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Find the time required to travel 24 miles:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Using the formula:<br>[<br>\\text{Time} = \\frac{\\text{Distance}}{\\text{Speed}}<br>]<br>[<br>\\text{Time} = \\frac{24}{37.98} = 0.632 \\text{ hours}<br>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Convert hours to minutes:<br>[<br>0.632 \\times 60 = 41.5 \\text{ minutes}<br>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Answer:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The speed boat will take <strong>41.5 minutes<\/strong> to cross the Chesapeake Bay at the given location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1455.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-205916\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know a speed boat can travel at 33 knots. How long (in minutes) will it take to cross the Chesapeake Bay at a place where the bay is 24 miles across? 1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour; 1 nautical mile = 6076 feet. The correct answer and explanation is : Answer: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}