Question

A car travels 266 miles in 4 hours and 45 minutes. How many miles does it travel per hour?

Answer 1

keeping in mind that there are 60 minutes in 1 hour, thus 4 hours is 4*60 or 240 minutes, thus if we add 45 minutes to that, that'd be 285 minutes, therefore, 4 hours and 45 minutes is 285 minutes.

now, we know the car travels 266 miles in 285 minutes, how many miles does it do in 60 minutes?


`\bf \begin{array}{ccll} miles&minutes\\ \text{\textemdash\textemdash\textemdash}&\text{\textemdash\textemdash\textemdash}\\ 266&285\\ m&60 \end{array}\cfrac{266}{m}=\cfrac{285}{60}\implies \cfrac{266\cdot 60}{285}=m`

that many.