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Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 08:30:51 EST
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The normal flight speed of a hummingbird is about 25 miles per hour. The distance across the Gulf of Mexico is about 525 miles. To find how many hours it would take for a hummingbird to cross the Gulf of Mexico, you would need to divide the number of miles by the speed that the hummingbird can fly. Since the hummingbird can fly 25 miles in one hour and the distance across the Gulf of Mexico is 525, we can divide 525 miles by 25 miles per hour to get 21. Assuming that the hummingbird will fly nonstop, it will take 21 hours to cross the Gulf of Mexico. If you multiply the number of hours it will take to cross the Gulf of Mexico by the number of minutes in an hour (60), you will get 1,260 minutes. If you multiply the number of minutes by the number of seconds there are in a minute (60), the answer you will get is 75,600 seconds to cross the Gulf of Mexico.
J. Dang
San Diego, CA
Challenger Middle School
Ms.Pfaff's Science Class
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