SOLUTION: A car travels 20 miles in 30 minutes. If Mike drives the first 5 miles at 20 mph How fast is he driving the remainder of the trip?

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Question 1186142: A car travels 20 miles in 30 minutes. If Mike drives the first 5 miles at 20 mph
How fast is he driving the remainder of the trip?

Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic:
Answer by ikleyn(52754) About Me  (Show Source):
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The remaining trip is  20 - 5 = 15 miles long.

Mike spends  5%2F20 = 1%2F4  of an hour = 15 minutes for the first part of the trip;

hence, he spends 30 - 15 = 15 minutes for the remaining part.



Thus Mike moves remaining part of 15 miles in 15 minutes;

hence, his speed is 1 mile per minute, or 60 miles per hour.    ANSWER


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Answer by josgarithmetic(39613) About Me  (Show Source):
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A car travels 20 miles in 30 minutes.
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"A car" travels at the speed of 40 miles per hour.


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If Mike drives the first 5 miles at 20 mph
How fast is he driving the remainder of the trip?
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Is Mike driving "A car"?
That car travels at 40 mph, not at 20 mph.
The description for Mike and his travel is incomplete.



Maybe your exercise description was supposed to be like this:
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Mike drives the first five miles of a 20 mile trip at 20 mph. How fast does he drive the remainder of this trip?
               SPEEDS      TIME in Hours        MILES DISTANCE

FirstPart        20        5/20=1/4                 5

Remainder                  1/2-1/4=1/4           20-5=15

TOTAL                         1/2                 20

The missing speed for the "Remainder" of the trip is %2815%2Amiles%29%2F%28%281%2F4%29%2Ahours%29
or 60 mph.