SOLUTION: A road crew can pave 1.5 miles of road in an eight hour shift. If they were stopped after two hours because of weather conditions, how many feet of road did they pave? (5280 feet =

Question 184577: A road crew can pave 1.5 miles of road in an eight hour shift. If they were stopped after two hours because of weather conditions, how many feet of road did they pave? (5280 feet = 1 mile)
Answer by jojo14344(1513) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let's convert 1st:
So they can paved 7920ft in 8 hours:

So in 2 hours:--->
.
Or simply by Ratio & Proportion:

---->
in 2 hours
Thank you,
Jojo
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