They drive for 2 hours and 45 minutes at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. How far did Carter and his family travel in that time?

Question

Carter and his family are driving from Atlanta to Raleigh. They drive for 2 hours and 45 minutes at an average speed of 60 miles per hour. How far did Carter and his family travel in that time?

Answer 1

if the family was driving for 2 hours and 45 minutes, I think a good idea would be to convert the time into hours. We know that 45 minutes is 3/4 of the hour, so the whole time was 2.75 hours. Now we could multiply that by 60 mph and have miles.

 

What did you get? 

 

We could also play it this way - the family was driving 60 miles per hour, so a mile a minute. so 60+60+45.