SOLUTION: Sonia rode her bike at an average speed of 12 mph. If it took her 40 minutes to reach her destination, how far away was it?

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Question 1139783: Sonia rode her bike at an average speed of 12 mph. If it took her 40 minutes to reach her destination, how far away was it?

Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, ineedhelpplzhwlpme:
Answer by ikleyn(52803) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Distance = rate*time = 12%2A%282%2F3%29 = 8 miles.    ANSWER


2%2F3 = 2%2F3 of an hour = 40 minutes.


Answer by ineedhelpplzhwlpme(1) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I think you can use a proportion for this.
So since there are 60 minutes in an hour, you will use this to create your proportion
it would look like
Reminder:(12 is in here because of Sonia riding at an average of 12 miles per hour or 60 minutes) (Because the website doesn't really show fractions it should be 12/60=x/40) (/ is the division sign or fraction sign)
12 x (these are the miles)
--- = ----
60 40 (This is the number of minutes)
Then you cross multiply. 60x=480
Then you get x by itself by dividing by 60 to both sides
60x 480
---- = -----
60 60
X=8
Since x represents the number of miles in 40 minutes and x=8, then that means that the number of miles Sonia rode in 40 minutes is 8 miles
I hope this helped ;)