Question

A fire truck is called to a fire at an

apartment complex. The fire truck is
traveling an average of 35 mph. It will
take the fire truck 12 minutes to reach
the fire. How far away is the apartment
complex?

Answer 1

6.96 miles or 7 miles

Step-by-step explanation:

The fisrt thing I like to do here is convert the 35 mph into miles per minute, because it takes 12 minutes to get there. So you divide 35 by 60 to get mpm. It is traveling .58 miles per minute. In order to see how far it is, you multiply .58 by 12, because it takes 12 minutes to get there. If you set up and equation, it would be .58= miles/12min. That would give you 6.96 miles or 7 miles.