SOLUTION: You only have ten minutes to get to school on time. If your top speed is 8 miles per hour and your house is 2 miles away, will you make it to school on time? If not, how late will

Question 1018645: You only have ten minutes to get to school on time. If your top speed is 8 miles per hour and your house is 2 miles away, will you make it to school on time? If not, how late will you be?
Found 2 solutions by addingup, josmiceli:
Answer by addingup(3677) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you have 10 minutes and 2 miles to go.
Your top speed is 8mph, this is, 8 in 1. Let's convert to minutes, your top speed is 8 in x minutes (however many minutes there are in 1 hour, you figure it out).
That means you can do 8/2=4 miles in 1/2 hour (convert it to minutes). And if we half that again, you can do 4/2 = 2 miles in 15 minutes. You only have 10 minutes. You'll be 15-10= minutes late to class.
We just did this problem in our heads. Not bad, huh?
j
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

mi
mi/hr
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hrs
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Convert 10 min to hrs:
hrs
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It takes me hrs
longer than I need to get to school
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Convert hours to minutes

I will be 5 min late
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