Question

2. A police car drives from a police station to a distance of 170 km in 4 hours. He then stops at a gas station for 1 hour to fill gas and rest. Then the driver goes for 100 Km in 1 hour 30 minutes to his final destination.
a. What is the speed of the police car between the police station and the gas station?
b. What is the speed of the police car between the gas station and the final destination?
c. What is the average speed of the police car?

Answer 1

Answer:

a.42.5 km/h or .71 km/m

b. 66.7 km/h or 1.1repeating km/m

c.41.5 km/h or .69 km/m

Explanation:

These are all average speed problems, meaning you divide the distance traveled by the time $s=\frac{d}{t}$

A. 170km/4hrs or 170km/240 mins

B. 100km/1.5hrs or 100km/90mins

C. The only tricky thing here is the question seems like it wants the speed for all of the information given, so you do include the one hour that he stops

270km/6.5 hrs or 270km/390 mins