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A car travels at a speed of s miles per hour. It covers 126 miles in 3 hours.

The equation that can be used to find the value of s is
× s = ??

The speed of the car is ??
miles per hour.

PLEASE HELP (also thanks for the answers on the last couple of questions yall)

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Answer:

Explanation:

This is a distance = rate times time problem where you are calling the rate "speed" instead. So our formula for distance then is distance = speed times time which is

d = st

The distance traveled in 126 miles and the time it took to do this was 3 hours. Filling in those values gives us

126 = s3 or

126 = 3s since multiplication is commutative. Solve for s by dividing both sides by 3 to get

s = 126/3 which is

s = 42 miles per hour

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