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Algebra Difficulty 1.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

In 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts, Eli Bishop set a world record for the greatest number of claps per minute. He achieved 1020 claps in one minute. How many claps is that per second?

(A) $17$ (B) $16.5$ (C) $16$ (D) $15.5$ (E) $15$

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