A car traveled 281 miles in 4 hours 41 minutes. What was the average speed of the car in miles per hour?
4 hours 41 minutes = 4 × 60 + 41 = 281 minutes
Average speed S is given by distance/ time.
S = 281 miles/281 minutes =1 mile/minute
= 60 miles/hour
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S = 281 miles / 281 minutes = 1 miles / minute
= 60 miles / hour
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To find the average speed of the car in miles per hour, you need to divide the distance traveled by the time it took to travel that distance.
First, convert the time from hours and minutes to minutes. In this case, we can convert 4 hours and 41 minutes into minutes by multiplying the number of hours by 60 (since there are 60 minutes in an hour) and then adding the remaining minutes.
So, 4 hours 41 minutes = (4 × 60) + 41 = 240 + 41 = 281 minutes.
Now that we have the time in minutes, we can calculate the average speed by dividing the distance traveled by the time. In this case, the car traveled 281 miles in 281 minutes.
So, the average speed is calculated as:
Average speed = distance / time = 281 miles / 281 minutes.
Simplifying the calculation, we get:
Average speed = 1 mile / 1 minute.
Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, we can further simplify the calculation to:
Average speed = 1 mile / 1 minute = 60 miles / 60 minutes = 60 miles per hour.
Therefore, the average speed of the car is 60 miles per hour.