Question

A family traveled 523 miles in 11 1/2 hours. The distance is the product of the rate and the time. To the nearest hundredth, what was the average speed the family traveled?

Answer 1

We have the following:

$\begin{gathered} d=v\cdot t \\ v=\frac{d}{t} \end{gathered}$

replacing, d = 523 miles and t = 11.5 hours:

$\begin{gathered} v=\frac{523}{11.5} \\ v=45.48 \end{gathered}$

The average speed is 45.48 miles per hour