Although they seem to remain unchanged, many mountains undergo steady growth. if erosion and weathering and ignored, some mountains, like the San Gabriels in southern California grow as much as 1.0 cm within a year. if a year is considered to be exactly 365 days, what is the speed at wich San Gabriel mountains grow in kilometers per hour?

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Bruce Combs

Physics

16 August, 06:33

Although they seem to remain unchanged, many mountains undergo steady growth. if erosion and weathering and ignored, some mountains, like the San Gabriels in southern California grow as much as 1.0 cm within a year. if a year is considered to be exactly 365 days, what is the speed at wich San Gabriel mountains grow in kilometers per hour?

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Deangelo Cannon · Answer 1

Remember that you have to do the conversion from cm to km (1m/100cm) * (1km/1000m) and from year to hours (365days/1year) * (1day/24hrs). Kilometers should end up on top of the fraction and hours on the bottom.