We are told that the car is moving southeasternly, so that answers the question right off the bat. The car is moving 120 miles per 2 hours. We need to know how much it moves in one hour though, so we must divide hours and miles by 2. We ger 60 miles per hour.
First let's get rid of the in the denominator of the fraction on the right side of the equation. This will help to get only and a coefficient on one side of the equation:
