I walked about 1.5 mph, even though I have short legs and I dropped the ball a few times.

I figured out my rate first by taking the "rate times time equals distance" (rt=D) formula and plugging in my time (43.234 sec.) and the distance (100 ft.).

My rate was 2.313 ft./sec. To get inches, I multiplied 100 by 12. Plugging 1200 into the formula gave me 27.756 in./sec.

To get miles, I divided 100 by 5280 (the number of feet in a mile). Then I divided 43.234 by 3600 to convert seconds to hours. Plugging 0.0189 mi. and 0.0120 hr. into the formula, I got 1.577 mi./hr.

In order to get meters per second I multiplied 1200 in. by 2.54 cm. and divided by 100 cm. (basically 12 times 2.54).

I put 30.48 into the formula to get 0.705 m/sec.

I was too busy tossing the ball to count how many steps I took, so I could not determine my stride length and frequency.

(For time changes note that there are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour.)

(For units of distance note that twelve inches equals one foot and 5280 feet equals one mile. Also 2.54 centimeters equals one inch.)

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