Question

The diagram shows the distance a tortoise can walk if it walks at a constant pace for 15 minutes. At the same rate, how many kilometers can the tortoise walk in 1 hour?

Write your answer as a decimal.

Answer 1

To find out how many kilometers the tortoise can walk in 1 hour, use a proportion to solve for the distance. The tortoise can walk 4 kilometers in 1 hour.

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out how many kilometers the tortoise can walk in 1 hour, we need to find the distance it can walk in 15 minutes and then convert that to kilometers per hour. Let's assume that the tortoise can walk 1 km in 15 minutes.

We can set up a proportion to solve for the distance the tortoise can walk in 1 hour:

15 minutes = 1 km
1 hour = x km

By cross-multiplication, we get:

15 minutes * x km = 1 km * 1 hour

x = (1 km * 1 hour) / 15 minutes

x = 4 km/h

Therefore, the tortoise can walk 4 kilometers in 1 hour.