SOLUTION: If a fire truck was driving at 50 miles per hr and traveled for eight min. how far will will it have traveled? We tried dividing 8 into 60 mins, which equalus 7, then we multipl

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Question 217400: If a fire truck was driving at 50 miles per hr and traveled for eight min. how far will will it have traveled?
We tried dividing 8 into 60 mins, which equalus 7, then we multiplied 7x50, but that equals 350 so that can't be right.

Answer by checkley77(12844)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
mph*min/hrs=miles.
50*8/60=400/60=6 2/3 miles.

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