SOLUTION: Terry walks 12 blocks to school each day. It takes him thirty minutes to get to school. If 12 blocks equal one third of a mile at waht unit rate is Terry walking to school?
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Question 512641: Terry walks 12 blocks to school each day. It takes him thirty minutes to get to school. If 12 blocks equal one third of a mile at waht unit rate is Terry walking to school?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
12 blocks times 1/3 mile per block = 4 miles.
4 miles in 30 minutes is 8 miles in one hour.
So 8 miles per hour. Baloney! People walk 3 miles per hour. If he is going 8 miles per hour, he is running.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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