Question

A car travels a steady speed and takes five hours to travel 310 miles. Work out the average speed of the car in miles per hour.

Answer 1

We have been given that a car travels a steady speed and takes five hours to travel 310 miles. We are asked to find out average speed of the car.

To find average speed of car we will divide total distance traveled by time taken in completing the distance.  

$\text{Average speed of car}=\frac{310\text{ miles}}{5\text{ hours}}$

Upon dividing 310 by 5 we will get,

$\text{Average speed of car}=62\frac{\text{ miles}}{\text{ hours}}$

Therefore, average speed of car will 62 miles per hour.