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A car travels 0.75 miles every minute, how could you explain how to use proportional reasoning to find how far the car travels in one hour ?

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I find the ratio that can be used to go from 1 minute to 1 hour. I then multiply 0.75 by that ratio.

Minutes x 60 = hours
0.75 x 60 = 45 mph
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