Ian traveled 2 miles in 20 minutes on his bike. He went the same speed for another hour. How far did he travel during his 1 hour and 20 minute bike ride?

Question

Can you please put steps because my brain has a hard time understanding when I look at problems and I sometimes miss calculate, skip, or are confused by what steps are for. Sorry!

Answer 1

A great approach to solve this is just to make a table with time in one column and corresponding distance in the other column. Add 2 miles every time you add 20 minutes, since the speed is constant. Here:

TIME (DURATION OF TRAVEL). DISTANCE COVERED IN THAT TIME

(MINUTES) (MILES)

20 2

40 4

60 6

80 8

80 minutes = 1 hour + 2 minutes, which implies ______ miles. See the table!