Each spring there is a race up the 86 floors of the 102 story Empire state building in NYC. If you were able to climb 2 steps/sec, how long would it take in minutes to reach the 86th floor if each floor were 14 feet high and each step 9 inches?

a) if the race of problem were a horizontal distance, how long would it take a runner who can run 5-minute miles to cover the distanance? compare this with the record speed of problem 39. gravity is certainly a factor to be reckoned with