Question

Christy’s family is driving from St. Louis, Missouri, to Boston, Massachusetts, to visit her cousins. The distance is 1,162 miles, and the driving time is 17 hours and 38 minutes. Christy’s mother wants to drive in 3 days, going about the same number of miles each day. About how many miles will they drive each day? About how many hours will they spend driving each day?

Answer 1

Christy and her family will drive about 387 miles each day and spend about 18 hours driving each day.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many miles Christy and her family will drive each day, divide the total distance of 1,162 miles by the number of days they will be driving. Since they want to drive in 3 days, you divide 1,162 by 3:

1,162 / 3 = 387.33 miles per day

Rounded to the nearest whole number, Christy and her family will drive about 387 miles each day.

To calculate the number of hours they will spend driving each day, first convert the driving time from hours and minutes to just hours. There are 60 minutes in an hour, so you divide the 38 minutes by 60 and add it to the 17 hours:

17 + (38/60) = 17.63 hours per day

Rounded to the nearest whole number, Christy and her family will spend about 18 hours driving each day.