SOLUTION: The turtle and the hare have a race that is 1 mile long. The turtle plods along steadily so that he will finish in 3 hours. The hare take a nap at the starting line for 2.8 hours

Question 198126: The turtle and the hare have a race that is 1 mile long. The turtle plods along steadily so that he will finish in 3 hours. The hare take a nap at the starting line for 2.8 hours, wakes up, and hops hurriedly to catch the turtle. How fast will the hare have to hop, to tie the race? This is what I've got so far:
I took the 3 hours that it will take the turtle and subtracted the 2.8 hours that the hare was sleeping, I came up with .2 hours that the hare has left to tie the race. I then used the formula speed = distance over time; which gave me 1 mile over .2 hours which would equal 5 mi/h. The hare would have to travel 5 mi/h to tie the turtle.
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