SOLUTION: A car travels at an average speed of 64 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 4 hours and 45 minutes

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Question 235031: A car travels at an average speed of 64 miles per hour. How many miles does it travel in 4 hours and 45 minutes
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45 minutes is hour.

If you go 64 miles per hour for 1 hour, you go 64 times 1 equals 64 miles. If you go 64 miles per hour for 2 hours, you go 64 times 2 equals 128 miles. Therefore, if you go 64 miles per hour for 4 and three-quarters hours...

Depending on whether you would rather work with fractions or decimals, either:

which is the same as

or



You can do your own arithmetic.

John