Question

You drive your car from your house to the beach for a

summer vacation trip. After 2 hours of driving. you are
110 miles from home. You arrive at the beach after a
total of 5 hours of driving and are now 299 miles from
home. What was vour average speed for the second
portion of the trip in miles per hour?

Answer 1

63 miles per hour

Explanation:

The first second of the trip, speed can be found by taking 110 miles and divide by 2 which means for the first half, the speed was 55 miles per hour

To find the speed of the second half you must first figure out the distance travelled. To do this you take the total distance (299) and minus the distance traveled in the first section (110) to get the total of 189 miles.

Since the trip all together was 5 hours and the first portion took 2 hours. The second portion took 3 hours. To find the speed you must divide 189 by 3 which is 63 miles per hour