The El Paso middle school girls basketball team is going from El Paso to San Antonio for the Texas state championship game. The trip will be 560 miles.their bus travels at an average speed of 60 miles per hour.
The bus route also travels through Balmorhea, which is 1/3 of the way from El Paso to San Antonio. About how long does it take the bus to get to Balmorhea?
Use the formula:
Rate x Time = Distance traveled
Rate is always the something per something- miles per hour, meters per second, etc.
For the stop at Balmorhea, you must first figure the distance. Use the question itself for your answer.
Balmorhea IS 1/3 OF the way from EP to SA.
Is means equals, of means to multiply.
Therefore:
Balmorhea's distance = 1/3 x the total distance
Now you can plug Balmorhea's distance into the RT = D formula I gave you above.
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time for whole trip =560/60 hours = 28/3 hours
to Balmoral is 1/3 of the distance, therefore 1/3 of the total time
(1/3)((28/3) = 28/9 = 3.11111 hours or
appr. 3 hours, 7 minutes
To calculate the time it takes for the bus to get to Balmorhea, we need to determine the distance it needs to cover.
The total distance from El Paso to San Antonio is 560 miles. We know that Balmorhea is 1/3 of the way from El Paso to San Antonio.
So, to find the distance from El Paso to Balmorhea, we need to divide the total distance by 3:
Distance from El Paso to Balmorhea = 560 miles / 3 = 186.67 miles (rounded to the nearest hundredth).
Now that we know the distance, we can calculate the time it takes by dividing the distance by the average speed of the bus:
Time to get to Balmorhea = Distance / Speed = 186.67 miles / 60 miles per hour.
To simplify, we divide the distance by the speed:
Time to get to Balmorhea ≈ 3.11 hours.
Therefore, it takes approximately 3.11 hours (or around 3 hours and 7 minutes) for the bus to get from El Paso to Balmorhea.