Question

The shortest route from London to Edinburgh is 400 miles.

A lorry is expected to take 10 hours to travel this route.
The lorry actually travels by a different route which increases the distance by 15%, but it still arrives in 10 hours.
By how many more mph than the expected speed does the lorry travel?

Answer 1

if it takes the lorry ten hours we divide 400 by 10

40 mph

if it takes 15% longer that means it will take

10*1.15=11.5

if we divide 400 by 11.5

we get 34.7826086957

or 34.8

so the lorry travels 5.2 mph faster then the expected speed

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