Question

The distance between two subway station is 3 miles if a train travels between the two stations at an average speed of 60 mph how many minutes does it take for the train to finish the trip between the two stations

Answer 1

Answer:

It takes 3 minutes.

Explanation:

The distance between the two subways is 3 miles.

The train travels at an average speed of 60mph (miles per hour).

$\frac{60miles}{1 hour} * \frac{1hour}{60minutes} = \frac{1mile}{1minute}$

We have to convert hours to minutes and we do that by cancelling out the hours and replacing it with minutes.

There are 60 minutes in an hour so we use that, 1 hour/60 minutes and multiply it to the existing speed we have.

The result is 1 mile per minute.

We then multiply the miles by 3 since that is how much we want and we get 3 minutes.