SOLUTION: A bus traveling at an average rate of 50 kilometers per hour made the trip to town in 6 hours. If it had traveled at 45 kilometers per hour, how many more minutes would it have tak
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Question 343345: A bus traveling at an average rate of 50 kilometers per hour made the trip to town in 6 hours. If it had traveled at 45 kilometers per hour, how many more minutes would it have taken to make the trip?
Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Distance = speed * time
=50*6=300 km
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Time = distance / speed
Time = 300 /45
time = 6.66 hours
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It takes 0.66 hours more
= 0.66 *60
= 39.6 minutes
= 40 minutes
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