A paper carrier rides a bicycle to deliver newspapers on his route.He averages 5 miles per hour during his route.At that rate,how long would it take him to deliver papers to a street that is 680 yards long?Round the answer to the nearest tenth of a minute.
To find out how long it would take for the paper carrier to deliver papers to a street that is 680 yards long, we need to convert the yards into miles.
There are 1760 yards in a mile, so to convert 680 yards into miles, we divide 680 by 1760:
680 yards / 1760 yards/mile = 0.38636 miles
Now that we have the distance in miles, we can calculate the time it would take. The paper carrier's average speed is 5 miles per hour, so we divide the distance by the speed:
0.38636 miles / 5 miles/hour = 0.07727 hours
To convert this into minutes, we multiply by 60:
0.07727 hours * 60 minutes/hour = 4.6362 minutes
Rounding to the nearest tenth of a minute, it would take the paper carrier approximately 4.6 minutes to deliver papers to a street that is 680 yards long.