document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1049061>Question 1049061</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> In 1860 and 1861, riders of the Pony Express delivered mail on horseback from<BR>\n" );
document.write( "St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The trip of 1966 miles took<BR>\n" );
document.write( "about 10 days (240 hours).<BR>\n" );
document.write( " a. What was the riders’ average speed to the nearest tenth of a mile per hour?<BR>\n" );
document.write( " b. A student estimates that it would take a Pony Express rider less than<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6 hours to travel 75 miles. Is the student’s estimate reasonable? Explain\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Make a proportion out of this. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The trip of 1966 miles took<BR>\n" );
document.write( "about 10 days (240 hours).<BR>\n" );
document.write( " a. What was the riders’ average speed to the nearest tenth of a mile per hour?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "To find mi/hr, divide the miles by the hours.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Is that not obvious?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( " b. A student estimates that it would take a Pony Express rider less than<BR>\n" );
document.write( "6 hours to travel 75 miles. Is the student’s estimate reasonable? Explain\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Make a proportion out of this. </SPAN>\n" );
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