## anonymous one year ago Traveling at 65 miles per hour, how many minutes, rounded to the nearest whole number, does it take to drive 125 miles from San Diego to Malibu? 2 60 115 130

1. anonymous

hmm @ganeshie8 @Thesn1 @UsukiDoll

2. anonymous

This one actually stumped me pretty hard. I feel like I could just multiply the minutes to the hours.. but Idk, I'm really bad at math, I'm 18 doing freshman math because I couldnt ever bother to come to school, but I'm trying now so I'm ready to learn it, any help would be appreciated really. :)

3. UsukiDoll

these problems don't appear at all at higher level math courses, so I forgot how to do them

4. ganeshie8

65 miles each hour how many hours it takes to travel 125 miles ?

5. anonymous

well if I do 65+65 I get 130 miles.

6. ganeshie8

Yes, in 2 hours you travel 130 miles

7. anonymous

The answer is 115, this was a trick question

8. ganeshie8

never said 130 is the answer

9. ganeshie8

One dumb way to work this problem is like this : Time = $$\dfrac{\text{Distance}}{\text{Speed}}$$ = $$\dfrac{\text{125 miles}}{\text{65 miles/hour}}$$ = $$\text{1.92 hours}$$

10. ganeshie8

multiply that by 60 to get the time in minutes

11. anonymous

That's exactly what I did, and got 115.2

12. ganeshie8

You got it right!

13. anonymous

Always eager to learn B) Doing whatever it takes!

14. ganeshie8

I think inquisitiveness is the foremost of all the virtues for a student to have, keep it up! :)

15. UsukiDoll

omg I had that answer earlier... I was doing 125/65 and got 1.92 too :(

16. UsukiDoll

and the miles label gets canceled out leaving with hours. so 1.92 hours -> approx. 2 hours.