Question

a man has been driving interstate 15 going north from Montana while going at a speed 70. the man has been driving non stop and is very tired. he enters canada and notices the sign now read 120. the manhappily increases his acceleration

10. A man has been driving Interstate 15 going north from Montana while going at a speed of 70. The man has been driving non-stop and is very tired. He enters Canada and notices the sign now reads 120. The man happily increases his acceleration so that his odometer is at 120. Suddenly, the man notices a state trooper flashing lights and motioning to him to pull over. The state trooper gets out and asks for the usual identification. Reluctantly, the man agrees and asks why he was pulled over. "You were speeding", the trooper replied. The man argues with the trooper for about 15 minutes, saying that his cruise control was on 120. The trooper then says, "You do realize that here in Canada, we use the metric system! Then the man realizes that he was indeed speeding. What did the man realize that he hadn't taken into account before?

Answer 1

The man realised that he was looking at odometer which was showing speed in miles/hours.

1 mile = 1.609 kilometers

Therefore, 120 miles/hr = 120*1.609 = 193.08 kilometers/hr

Which is clearly greater than 120 kiolometer/hour (metric system)