SOLUTION: A family is making a trip which will cover 5200 miles. After three days travel time, the family has covered 4/13 of the distance. They have ten more days to complete the trip. H
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Question 537: A family is making a trip which will cover 5200 miles. After three days travel time, the family has covered 4/13 of the distance. They have ten more days to complete the trip. How many miles per day should they average for the remainder of their trip? Answer by arden42(16) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Well, first we need to work out how far they have travelled so far:
Take that away from the total trip gives us the remaining distance:
They have 10 days to cover 3600 miles, and we want to know how far they need to travel in 1 day:
Therefore they need to travel an average of 360 miles a day for the remainder of the trip.
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