Question

A football field is 30 ft long a sloth is moving very quickly travel 60 ft every 5 minutes based on this ratio how many minutes will it take a floss to travel the length of a football field

Answer 1

Answer is 2.5 minutes

Step by step. If the sloth travels 60 ft in 5 minutes, we know he is traveling half the distance (30 ft) so it’s half the time ( 1/2 of 5)

You can find the rate by dividing 60/5 for a rate of 12 Ft per minute. You would then divide the 30 ft by rate of 12 to get 2.5 minutes.

Answer 2

We know that speed defines the rate at which the position of a given object changes as time passes.

Here we must use the relation:

distance = speed*time.

With this, we will find that the sloth needs 25 minutes to travel the given distance.

Now let's see how we get that value:

We know that the length of the football field is 300ft, then:

distance = 300ft.

We also know that the sloth can travel a distance of 60ft in 5 minutes, then using the above relation we can find that the speed of the sloth is:

speed = distance/time = 60ft/5min = 12 ft/min

Now we know the distance that the sloth must travel and the speed of the sloth, then we can solve the general relation for the time:

time = distance/speed =

This means that the sloth will travel the length of a football field in 25 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation: