Question

Parvez drives 3 times the hours that Misty does. Parvez and Misty drive for a total of 12 hours. How long did each person drive?

Answer 1

So Parvez drives 3 times the hours that Misty does.

Let's use the "times" as "x."

So Parvez = 3x, and Misty = x. Together, they drove a total of 12 hours.

So to make that an equation, we would have:

3x + x = 12

Combine like terms:

4x = 12

Divide both sides by 4:

x = 3

So Misty drove a total of 3 hours. Now to find the number of hours Parvez drove, we can either subtract 12 by 3 or solve 3x, which is 3(3), both gives you 9. So Parvez drove 9 hours.