SOLUTION: A car is traveling at a rate of 40 miles per hour. At this rate, how many miles will the car will travel in 12 minutes?

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Question 390397: A car is traveling at a rate of 40 miles per hour. At this rate, how many miles will the car will travel in 12 minutes?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Since 1 hour = 60 minutes, this means that hour = 12 minutes (divide both sides by 5)


So in this case we're given that the speed is 40 mph. So . The time is hours. So


Now plug these values into to get


So the car will travel 8 miles.


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