A high rise apartment building has four elevators. Each elevator travels upward at an average rate of 18 feet per second. The elevator travels 12 feet from one floor to the next. Suppose you get on the elevator on the first floor and travel straight to the fiftieth floor without stopping. To the nearest second, how king will it take to travel from the first floor to the fiftieth floor on this elevator?
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(50 * 12)/18 =
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