The winner of a 200 mile race drove his car to victory at a rate of 1 11.99 7/8 miles per hour what was his time to the nearest thousandth of an hour

Answer 1

Essentially you have a distance 200 miles,

a speed of ?, and you want to calculate the time.

Well you use v = d/t, where v is your speed, d is your distance, and t is your time allotted.

Such that you solve for t —> t = d/v. And that should get you your time.