SOLUTION: A man walks .5 miles in 12 minutes, how many miles/hr is he walking?

Question 558954: A man walks .5 miles in 12 minutes, how many miles/hr is he walking?
Answer by mseely(2) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hint: The word "in" means "per" (the same as the symbol "/") which means division. So try dividing.

But you also need to convert minutes to hours, since they give you a number in minutes, but they want an answer in hours. See that?

So miles/minute is what you have when you divide.

Then the conversion factor from minutes to hours is .

So you multiply your answer by the conversion factor so the minutes cancel, leaving hours.

miles/minute * minutes/hour

The minute units cancel top to bottom leaving miles per hour. So see how many miles per hour you get once you multiply and divide everything as shown here.
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