SOLUTION: A plane flies over Cleveland at 10:20 a.m. It passes over a community 120 miles away at 10:32 a.m. Find the plane's flight rate in miles per hour.
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Question 715539: A plane flies over Cleveland at 10:20 a.m. It passes over a community 120 miles away at 10:32 a.m. Find the plane's flight rate in miles per hour. Found 2 solutions by unlockmath, ankor@dixie-net.com:Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Hello,
First find the amount of time it takes:
12 minutes
convert this to hours:
12/60 or 1/5 of an hour
We know the formula is:
rate=miles divided by time
Plug in the values:
rate=120/1/5
This can be rewritten as:
120 divided by 1/5
rewritten as:
120 times 5 = 600 miles per hour
Make sense?
RJ
www.math-unlock.com
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A plane flies over Cleveland at 10:20 a.m.
It passes over a community 120 miles away at 10:32 a.m.
Find the plane's flight rate in miles per hour.
:
I flies 120 mi in 12 min, that 10 mi/min
which is: 60 * 10 = 600 mph
