SOLUTION: a bus leaves bloem at 19:25 and reaches durban at 02:50, a distance of approximately 540km Q1 how many minutes does the bus take to its journey Q2 how many seconds does it tak

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Question 769357: a bus leaves bloem at 19:25 and reaches durban at 02:50, a distance of approximately 540km
Q1 how many minutes does the bus take to its journey
Q2 how many seconds does it take to travel 1 kilometer
Q3 the average speed of the bus

Found 2 solutions by Jc0110, Alan3354:
Answer by Jc0110(165)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The reason adding 24:00 to 02:50 is to make it subtractable by 19:25.

This subtraction has shown that the total time taken on the journey is 7 hours 25 minutes.
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Time taken for the bus to take to its journey
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Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a bus leaves bloem at 19:25 and reaches durban at 02:50, a distance of approximately 540km
Q1 how many minutes does the bus take to its journey
07:25 = 445 minutes
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Q2 how many seconds does it take to travel 1 kilometer
540 km/445 min * 60 sec/min =~ 72.81 seconds
Q3 the average speed of the bus
540/445 = 180/89 km/min
=~ 2.022 km/minute

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