Question

Please work this equation out and show how you did it
You are driving to visit a friend who lives in another state that is 850 miles away. Your car is traveling at 60 miles per hour and
you have already driven 250 miles. Write and solve an equation to find out how much longer in hours you must drive to reach your
friend.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Answer:

According to the formula, if we multiply the rate and time, the product should be our distance.



And it is! We drove 50 mph for 0.5 hours—and 50 ⋅ 0.5 equals 25, which is our distance.

What if we drove 60 mph instead of 50? How far could we drive in 30 minutes? We could use the same formula to figure this out.



60 ⋅ 0.5 is 30, so our distance would be 30miles.