SOLUTION: if you're going 720 mile trip and average 60 mph and take 2 one hour stops and five fifteen minute breaks for gas and you left a 6 a.m. at what time will you reach your destination

Question 483335: if you're going 720 mile trip and average 60 mph and take 2 one hour stops and five fifteen minute breaks for gas and you left a 6 a.m. at what time will you reach your destination
Answer by jorel1380(3719) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
720/60=12 hours driving time
Plus, two 1-hour breaks:2 more hours
Five 1/4 hour breaks:1-1/4 more hours
Total time:15-1/4 hours
If you left at 6 a.m., you would not arrive at your destination until 9:15 p.m...
RELATED QUESTIONS
1.You are going on a trip. It will take 3 hours to get there in a car going 60 mph. Your... (answered by josgarithmetic)

Moe and Joe take a car trip. Moe drives at an average speed of 42 mph for the first hour... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

Suppose you travel a total of 100 miles. For the first mile, you were going at a speed of (answered by jorel1380)

As a motorist approaches the turnpike, he travels at the rate of 20 miles per hour in... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

Traveling at an average speed of 60 miles per hour can give better gas mileage than... (answered by scott8148)

Traveling at an average speed of 60 miles per hour can give better gas mileage than... (answered by ankor@dixie-net.com)

If you are taking a 350-mile trip and for 70 miles you average 35 mph and the rest is at... (answered by stanbon)

if you are traveling 330 miles and going 60 mph one way and comming back you are going 40 (answered by Fombitz)

if you are traveling 330 and going 60 mph one way and comming back you are going 40 mph,... (answered by ewatrrr,jrfrunner)