Question

A car takes 49.7 seconds to travel 1 mile. How long does it take the car to travel 3.8 miles? First round to the nearest whole number to find the estimated answer. Then find the exact answer

Answer 1

Answer: 188.6 seconds which is rounded to 189 seconds or 3 minutes and 9 seconds

Explanation:

Since we see that a time is given for 1 mile, to find the other distance we multiply the time for 1 mile (49.7 seconds) by the distance required (3.8 miles)

It can be also written like this:

1 mile -------> 49.7 seconds

3.8 miles-------> 49.7 seconds x 3.8 miles = 188.6 seconds rounded to 189 seconds. If asked for minutes, it can be written as 3 minutes and 9 seconds

Hope this helps!