To find the rate, first you divide 180mi/3hr to get 60mph. On the first day they were traveling at a rate of 60mph. It says that on the second day, they drove at the same rate and drove 300 miles. This means you divide 300mi/60mph to get 5hr. They drove 5hr on the second day. And finally, the question asks how long they drove total, so you add 3hr+5hr to get 8hr total.
Answer is 8hr.
1.C 2. No 3.A hope this help
You have not given us any of the steps that Ricardo took to simplify the
expression, and you also haven't given us the list of choices that includes
the description of his mistake, so you're batting O for two so far.
Other than those minor details, the question is intriguing, and it certainly
draws me in.
If Ricardo made a mistake in simplifying that expression, I'm going to say that
it was most likely in the process of removing the parentheses in the middle.
Now you understand that this is all guess-work, because of all the stuff that you
left out when you copied the question, but I think he probably forgot that the 3x
operates on everything inside the parentheses.
He probably wrote that 3x (x-3) is
either 3x² - 3
or x - 9x .
In reality, when properly simplified,
3x (x - 3) = 3x² - 9x .
