The answer I came up with is 00934
try 60 becasue 75/5 is 15 so I multiplyied 4x15 and got 60
8 seconds
The hardest part of this is setting up the equation -- the calculations are pretty easy.
You're told that the time (needed to go from 0 to 100 MPH) is inversely proportional to the horsepower: what this means is that as horsepower gets larger, time gets smaller. This makes sense since the more horsepower you have, the less time it will take you to get to 100 MPH
You can think of this as:
200 HP = 10 seconds
250 HP = x seconds
You set the equation up as:
250 HP / 200 HP = 10 sec / x sec
Now, just cross multiply and solve:
250 / 200 = 10 / x
250x = (200 x 10)
250x = 2000
x = 2000 / 250
x = 8
So, as you increase the horsepower from 200 to 250, the time decreases from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
Hope this helps!
Good luck.
You can write it as a proportion and then solve the proportion.
(2.5 hours is 150 minutes)
14 cars x cars
--------------- = -------------------
45 minutes 150 minutes
Then solve.
x=46.6666666
So that is about 47 cars