Question

At 3:18, Lila exits the lobby at the corner of moneo drive and 8th street and steps into a waiting taxicab. At 3:24, she's leaves the cab and enters a hotel at the corner of moneo And 20th.
The cabs average rate of travel was ___ streets per minute

The cabs average rate of travel was___ seconds per street.

Show me how you got your answer please

Answer 1

First, we need to find how much time was spent in the cab. If she got in the cab at 3:18 and got out at 3:24, she was in the cab for 24-18=6 minutes. Since she went from 8th to 20th on Moneo, she traveled a total of 20-8=12 streets. To address the first question, we want to know how many streets per minute were covered. We can find this by dividing the number of streets by the number of minutes:
$12 \div 6=2$ streets per minute.

To find the average rate of travel in terms of second per street, we need to convert our 6 minute time into seconds. There are 60 seconds per minute, so this is 60*6=360 seconds. Now we will divide the number of seconds by the number of streets to find the rate of travel in seconds per street:
$360 \div 12=30$ seconds per street.