Question

The average speed of a car during 5 hours is 50 miles per hour. What is the total distance traveled by the car?

Answer 1

250 miles

Explanation:

So we know that the time (t) equals 5 hours and that the rate (r) equals 50 mph. So knowing that, we can use the formula t*r=distance. We plug in the numbers and we get 250 miles.

Another way to think about this is, since we go 5 hours and 50 miles per hour, every hour we go 50 miles and we do that for 5 hours, so we go 50, 100, 150, 200, 250.