SOLUTION: A family vacation trip took 12 hours. Of the total, 4/5 was in car and 1/5 was in boat, and the car traveled 5 times as fast as the boat. How much more time, in hours, was spend in

Question 1101910: A family vacation trip took 12 hours. Of the total, 4/5 was in car and 1/5 was in boat, and the car traveled 5 times as fast as the boat. How much more time, in hours, was spend in the boat than the car?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, richwmiller:
Answer by ikleyn(52855) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.
The condition is presented in so ambiguous way that . . .

I can not understand if 4/5 is the fraction of time or the fraction of the distance.

Sorry, it is not the Math way to formulate the problem in this manner.

Answer by richwmiller(17219) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Grammatically, the problem states that 4/5 and 1/5 are time.
However, the question itself indicates that more time was spent in the boat which contradicts that premise.
So, the problem contradicts itself.
4/5*12=48/5 =9 3/5 hrs=9:36 hrs time in car
1/5*12=12/5= 2 2/5 hrs=2:24 hrs time in boat
9:36-2:24= 7:12 hrs more in the car than in the boat
Another way to calculate:
4/5-1/5=3/5
3/5*12=36/5= 1/5= 7:12 hrs more in the car than in the boat
RELATED QUESTIONS
A family vacation trip took 12 hours. Of the total distance, 4/5 was in a car and 1/5 was (answered by ikleyn)
1) On a recent trip, Sarah's car traveled 20 mph faster on the first 200 miles than it... (answered by mananth)
To reach a vacation spot, the Jones family first traveled by plane and then drove the... (answered by stanbon,bucky)
1. Jenna and her family drove a total of 5 hours on their vacation trip. Their average (answered by ewatrrr)
It took a boat 5 hours to travel upstream and back. The current was 3mi/hr and the return (answered by stanbon)
a boat traveled 135 mules downstream and back. The trip downstream took 5 hours and the... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)
If a family took a vacation and was traveling 60m/h, how far would they have traveled in... (answered by Alan3354)
How would I set up this problem? A car traveled 360 miles in 4 hours to a city with the... (answered by josmiceli)
a boat traveled 60 mi down river and then returned. the total time for the round trip was (answered by josgarithmetic,josmiceli)