Question

to get to work truman waited 11 minutes for the bus, then travled 21.78 miles on the bus at a speed of 33 miles per hour how much time passed from the time Truman left for work to the time he arrived at work

Answer 1

We have 11 as our base value, meaning that we add 11 to something, so we have 11+<something>. To find that something, we want to know how long it takes to go 21.78 miles at 33 miles per hour. To get this, we want to turn miles per hour into minutes per mile and multiply that by 21.78 miles to get our answer. Therefore, we cross them out as shown in the equation to get $\frac{21.78 miles}{1} * \frac{1 hour}{33 miles} * \frac{60 minutes}{1 hour}$