Question

kadeem and quinn both drive 25 miles. Kadeem drives at a constant speed of 50 miles an hour. Quinn drives at a constant speed of 75 miles an hour. Who takes longer to drive the 25 miles? How much loner?

Answer 1

Answer:

Kadeem will take 0.166 h more to complete the course.

Step-by-step explanation:

The speed is the rate at which the distance changes, when the speed goes up the distance changes more quickly, therefore if the distance is the same and the speed is higher the one who will take longer is the one that has less speed. In this case the one who will take longer to drive the 25 miles is Kadeem, since he's driving at 50 mph. In order to calculate how much longer we need to calculate the time at which each of them complete the course, this is shown below:

time = distance/speed

For Kadeem:

time = 25/50 = 0.5 h

For Quinn:

time = 25/75 = 0.334 h

The difference between the is 0.5 - 0.334 = 0.166 h.