SOLUTION: A jet flew atan average speed of 540 mi/h on a 4 2/3h flight. What was the distance flown?
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Question 98242: A jet flew atan average speed of 540 mi/h on a 4 2/3h flight. What was the distance flown?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First convert to an improper fraction:
Multiply the denominator 3 by the whole number 4 to get 12. Now add 2 to 12 to get 14. So the improper fraction is
So now we have a time and a rate . Plug these into the distance-rate-time formula to find d
Plug in and
Multiply
So the plane flew 2,520 miles
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