How long will it take to get to a galaxy if...??? (physics problem)?

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Yourt spaceship is traveling at 1,500 mph to a galaxy located 22,000456 miles away. How long will it take you to get to the galaxy?


And how do you solve this:
Saturn's escape velocity is 36 kil/sec, how many kil/hr is that?

This isn't homework by the way it's just a study guide and there are more problems like this but i just need to know how to do it. Please?
 
The first one is more like Math..
22,000456 / 1,500 = 14666.97066666666666666666666667
Meaning that it will take you 14,666.970 million light years to arrive at this specified Galaxy (Aproximately).

36 x 120 = 4320
Meaning that Saturn's Escape velocity is 4320 kil/hr
OR 36 x 60 = 2150
Meaning that this could also be it's Escape Velocy per hour.
I'm not exactly sure.
 
The first problem:
22,000,456 divided by 1500 = 14,666.970667 hours or 880,018.240 minutes or 52,801,094.40 seconds or 611.12378 days or 87.3034 weeks



The second problem
36 kilometers per second x 60 kilometers per minute x 60 kilometers per hour= 129,600 kilometers per hour
or
36 kilometers / 1 second x 60 kilometers / 1 minute x 60 kilometers / 1 hour= 129,600 kilometers / 1 hour
or
36x60x60= 129,600 kilometers per hour


And by the way Logical Alec, your second answer is wrong, it would be 36 x 60 x 60, not 36 x 60 x 2 or 36 x 60, because you have to take into account multiplying the seconds by minutes by hours
 
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