Question

an airplane takes off at a rate of 2,000 feet per minute. how long will it take the plane to reach 50,000 feet

Answer 1

It is going at a rate of 2000 ft every minute. So that is 2000 times every minute. Let setup an equation to solve this.

m = minutes

2000m = 50000
Lets solve for m, which is our minutes
2000m = 50000
m =  50000 / 2000
m =  25 minutes
It would take 25 minutes at a rate of 2000 ft/minute to reach 50000 ft