Question

A car travels 0.75 every minute. Explain how could you use proportional reasoning to find how far the car travels in one hour

Answer 1

Sample Response: Identify the unit rate as 0.75 miles per 1 minute. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, multiply 0.75 time 60 to find how far the car travels in one hour.

Explanation:

Answer 2

If you know that the car travels 0.75 per minute and that there are 60 minutes are in a hour, you could multiply 0.75 with 60, which gives you an answer of 45.