Question

A parade traveled 9 miles in 3 minutes and how far did the parade travel per minute

Answer 1

It is given in the question that a parade traveled 9 miles in 3 minutes.

Here distance is 9 miles and time is 3 minutes.

We have to find how many miles travelled per minute. It means , we have to find the speed, and the formula of speed is

`speed = (distance)/(time)`

Substituting the values of distance and time, we will get

`speed = (9)/(3) miles/minutes`

`speed = 3 miles/minutes`

Therefore the parade travelled 3 miles per minute .