SOLUTION: You rode your bike 24 miles and traveled at 16 miles per hour. How long did you take?

Question 468010: You rode your bike 24 miles and traveled at 16 miles per hour. How long did you take?
Answer by Alan3354(69443) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
24/16 = 1.5 hours
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You want to solve for time, "how long" is time.
24 miles has no time
16 miles/hour has time, hours in the denominator
16 miles/hr --> 1/16 hours/mile
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Now you need to eliminate the miles in the denominator.
Multiply by the 24 miles, the miles units cancel.
24 miles * (1/16) hour/mile = 24/16 hours
= 1.5 hours.
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Make use of the units to figure out what to do, and to check that you did the right thing.

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