Question

A car is traveling at a steady speed. It travels 2 1/2 miles in 3 1/2 minutes. How far will it travel in 47 minutes?In 1 hour?

Answer 1

Here, we want to calculate the distance a car will travel, given that it traveled a certain distance is some given minutes and its speed is steady.

Since the speed of the car is steady, we will need to calculate the speed of the car from the distance and for the number of hours traveled;

Mathematically;

`\text{speed = }\frac{dis\tan ce\text{ traveled}}{\text{time taken}}`

From the question, the distance traveled is 2 1/2 miles while the time taken to travel this distance is 3 1/2 minutes

The speed of the car is thus;