Rate, Distance, and Time - Definitions & Examples
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- Rate-time-distance is pretty easy to understand, the formula to use for rate-time-distance is: Distance=Rate×Time\text{Distance} = \text{Rate} \times \text{Time}Distance=Rate×Ti…
By Vinni Achanta, Moor Xu, Alex Federspiel, Joshua Siktar, Jonathan Heller, Anusha Rahman
- (Video) Distance, Rate, and Time Word Problem by PatrickJMT This video by PatrickJMT works through a word problem involving distance, rate, and time. Summary\large{\text{Summary…
By Alex Federspiel, Joshua Siktar, Amy Feraco, Jonathan Heller, Anusha Rahman
- How are Rate, Time, and Distance Related? These 333 variables—rate, time, and distance—are all closely related to each other. They're like the Three Musketeers of math. If you k…
By Hannah Bonville, Alex Federspiel, Amy Feraco, Jonathan Heller, Gabi Slizewska, Anusha Rahman
- (Video) Linear Distance, Rate, and Time Word Problem by PatrickJMT In this video, Patricks works through a word problem involving distance, rate, and time. Summary\large{\text{S…
By Alex Federspiel, Caroline K, Anusha Rahman
- If we want to find the relationship between distance, rate, and time, we use a simple formula. Work and rate problems are common applications of rational expressions. We can use…
By Anusha Rahman
Problems 26
- Five bricklayers working together finish a job in 333 hours. Working alone, each bricklayer takes at most 363636 hours to finish the job. What is the smallest number of minutes …
- A 645645645 mile, 666 hour plane trip was flown at two speeds. For the first part, the average speed was 959595 mph. Then the tailwind picked up and the second part was made in …
- Anna and Cooper each leave the same house at 2:382{:}382:38 p.m. on a Saturday in the middle of July. The average speed of Anna's car is 323232 mph slower than twice the speed o…
- A plane made a trip from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles and back, covering the same distance both ways. The trip there took 444 hours but the trip back took 555 hours due to poor wea…
- Nate left school and traveled toward his best friend Alex's faraway house at an average speed of 242424 mph. Ben left school one hour later and traveled the opposite direction w…
- Joseph ran a total linear distance of sss meters in ttt seconds. Write an expression for how fast Joseph ran, on average.
- Martha heard that the distance between her house and Christopher's is four kilometers. Martha can walk 1.25 meters-per-second1.25 \text{ meters-per-second}1.25 meters-per-second…
- Mikhail can sprint ten miles per hour. Approximately how many miles can he sprint in a second?
- Suppose you walk at 444 mph for 757575 minutes, and then run at 6mph for half an hour. How many miles have you gone?
- A car drives 120120120 miles in 909090 minutes, and then gets stopped in traffic for half an hour. Then it's able to drive at 505050 miles per hour for the next three hours. Wha…
- Suppose that in a 151515-mile race, A wins and beats B by 333 miles (meaning that when A finishes, B is 333 miles behind him) and A beats C by 666 miles. Assuming that the runne…
- Andrea and Lauren are 202020 kilometers apart. They bike toward one another with Andrea traveling three times as fast as Lauren, and the distance between them decreasing at a ra…
- Suppose you travel from city A to city B at a speed of two minutes per mile, and return along the same route at a speed of two miles per minute. What is your average speed on th…
- How many miles does the hummingbird travel by the time the trains pass?
- In the morning, Esther biked from home to school at an average speed of xxx miles per hour. In the afternoon, having lent her bike to a friend, Esther walked back home along the…
- The time now is 1 o’clock. The hour hand of the clock will next overlap the minute hand of the clock in mn\frac{m}{n}nm hours, where mmm and nnn are relatively prime positive i…
- A motorboat travels 486486486 km in 999 hours going upstream and 470470470 km in 555 hours going downstream. What is the speed of the boat in still water, and what is the speed …
- The Pai family drove from their home into the country at a speed of 808080 km/hr. They returned over the same road at 707070 km/hr. If the round trip took 666 hours, how far did…
- A scout in a canoe can travel 121212 km/hr in still water. If the scout traveled 303030 km downstream in the same time that it took to travel 151515 km upstream, what was the ra…
- Mary and David are 833833833 miles apart and are heading toward each other to meet for dinner. Mary is traveling at 545454 mph and David is traveling at 656565 mph. How long wil…
- A plane flew a total of 3,5203,5203,520 miles at the average rate of speed of 320320320 mph. How long did it take the plane to cover this distance?
- Amanda ran 101010 miles in 111 hour and 303030 minutes. At what rate was she running?
- During the time at which Po's plane lands, there isn't any room left on the runway for another plane. Which of the three planes can you allow to land?
- Andy and Buzz start at the two ends of a route and plan on meeting somewhere in the middle. They start walking at the same moment. The total length of the route is 161616 kilome…
- Jacob and Jesse are planning a bike trip to a famous local destination. The distance one way is roughly 120 miles. They are thinking of either getting there in 2 days or 3 days.…
- Rene sometimes bikes to school and walks other times. It takes her 101010 minutes to bike and 404040 minutes to walk. The difference in her biking and walking speed is 666 miles…