Question

A car takes 40 minutes to reach a school. The odometer of the car shows that the car has covered a distance of 5 km. What is the speed of the car?

Answer 1

Answer: speed = 7.5 kilometers per hour

= 7.5 km/h

Explanation: To solve for speed or rate use the formula for speed, s = d/t which means speed equals distance divided by time.

speed = distance/time

Answer 2

Concept Introduction:-

It might resemble a word or a number representation of the quantity's arithmetic value.

Given Information:-

We have been given that a car takes $40$ minutes to reach a school. The odometer of the car shows that the car has covered a distance of $5$ km.

To Find:-

We have to find that the speed of the car.

Solution:-

According to the problem

$\therefore speed=\frac{distance}{time}\\ =\frac{5km}{40 min}\\ =\frac{5 \times 60}{40}\\=7.5$

Final Answer:-

The correct answer is the speed of the car is $7.5$ km/hr.

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