Question

2. A delivery truck driver completes

of her assigned route from 8 o'clock
in the morning to 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. At that rate, what time
will she finish her route?
(A) 4 o'clock
(C) 6 o'clock
(E) 8 o'clock
(B) 5 o'clock
(D) 7 o'clock

Answer 1

The delivery truck driver completes 6 hours of her assigned route from 8 o'clock in the morning to 2 o'clock in the afternoon. If she continues at the same rate, she will complete the remaining 2 hours of her route at the same rate, which means she will finish at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Therefore, the answer is (A) 4 o'clock.

Answer 2

Explanation:

To find the time the delivery truck driver will finish her route, we need to calculate the time it takes to complete one part of the route and then determine how many such parts are covered from 8 o'clock in the morning to 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The driver completes her route from 8 o'clock to 2 o'clock, which is a total of 6 hours (2 PM - 8 AM = 6 hours).

Since she completes 2/6 (or 1/3) of her route in 6 hours, we can find out how much time it takes to complete the entire route by dividing the total time (6 hours) by the fraction of the route completed (1/3):

Total time to complete the route = 6 hours / (1/3) = 6 hours * 3 = 18 hours.

Now, we need to add these 18 hours to the starting time (2 o'clock in the afternoon) to find the finishing time:

2 o'clock + 18 hours = 20 o'clock.

Since there are only 12 hours on a standard clock, 20 o'clock is the same as 8 o'clock.

Therefore, the driver will finish her route at 8 o'clock in the evening. So, the correct answer is (E) 8 o'clock.