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Question 613672: John is traveling to a client meeting. He has to travel 100 miles and is driving at a speed of 60 miles per hour. It is 9:00 AM when he starts his journey. What time will he get to his client meeting?
Answer by radh(108) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let's dissect this word problem into mathematics.

John is traveling to a client meeting. He has to travel 100 miles (=100) and is driving at a speed of 60 miles per hour (60x).
Let's work with this first. 60x=100. Let's simplify that: x=100%2F60, which simplified, is x=5%2F3 or 1%282%2F3%29. To translate that fraction into minutes, we'd simply multiply everything to get a denominator of 60. So, 1=60%2F60 and 2%2F3=40%2F60. He spent 1 hour and 40 minutes driving. Add that to 9:00AM and you get 10:40 AM.

John reached at 10:40 AM. :)