an airplane travels 300 miles in 36 minutes. at this rate, how far will it travel in 2 hours?

Answer 1

You can solve this problem in more than one way.

One way would be to determine how many miles the airplane can travel in 6 minutes and then multiply by 10 to determine how far it can travel in 1 hour (recall that 60 minutes is equal to 1 hour).

300 miles ÷ 6 = 50 miles

36 minutes ÷ 6 6 minutes

Since there are 60 minutes in 1 hour, we can multiply the distance by 10 for 1 hour:

50 * 10 = 500 miles in 1 hour

The distance for 2 hours will then be twice that for 1 hour:

500 miles * 2 = 1000 miles in 2 hours