An earthworm crawled toward a rock at 14 millimeters per second. At that velocity, how long

did the earthworm take to crawl 77 millimeters?

Write your answer to the tenths place.

seconds

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Biology

Isiah

26 January, 02:29

An earthworm crawled toward a rock at 14 millimeters per second. At that velocity, how long

did the earthworm take to crawl 77 millimeters?

Write your answer to the tenths place.

seconds

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Laci Hawkins · Answer 1

5.5 seconds

Explanation: You can either use a proportion or simple division for this, depending on how it is requested.

Proportion

14 mm/1 sec = 77 mm/x sec [cross multiply]

14x = 77 [divide 77 by 14 to isolate the x]

x = 5.5 seconds

Simple Division

77/14 = 5.5

An earthworm crawled toward a rock at 14 millimeters per second. At that velocity, how longdid the earthworm take to crawl 77 millimeters?Write your answer to the tenths place.seconds

An earthworm crawled toward a rock at 14 millimeters per second. At that velocity, how long

did the earthworm take to crawl 77 millimeters?

Write your answer to the tenths place.

seconds