Question

You walk 2 miles in 1 half hour at the rate how long will it take you to walk 3 miles ?

Answer 1

45 minutes or .75 of an hour or 3/4 of an hour

Explanation:

if you walk 2 miles in a half-hour (30 minutes) , how long will it take to walk 3 miles. Well the answer is simple, we need to use proportions to solve it though. For example:

`(miles)/(hours)` =
`(2)/(.5)`

therefore, half of .5 is .25

so for someone to complete 1 mile, it takes .25 of an hour. .25 of an hour is 15 minutes. Therefore, the correct simplified proportion is :
`(1)/(.25)`

Now we need to find out what the denominator (bottom number/time) would be when the numerator (top number of the fraction) is =3.

Since we have the simplified version as a 1, we can just multiply .25 by 3 which is .75, and .75 of an hour is 45 minutes. Therefore the answer is 45 minutes.

Answer 2

3/4 of a hour

Explanation:

2 miles = 0.5 hours

Divide by 2

1 mile = 0.25 hours

Multiply by 3

3 mile = 0.75 hours