Question

Mr. Ford drove 215 miles in 3.5 hours. What is the unit rate for Mr. Ford’ s drive?

Answer 1

Question says that Mr. Ford drove 215 miles in 3.5 hours. Now we have to find about what is the unit rate for Mr. Ford’ s drive. that means we have to find the speed of driving.

To find the speed we can use the following formula :

$Speed=\frac{Distance}{Time}$

Where Distance covered is 215 miles

and time taken to cover that distance is 3.5 hours.

Then we get speed:

$Speed=\frac{215}{3.5}$

$Speed=61.4285714286$

Hence final answer is approx 61.43 miles per hour.