Question

Depending on traffic, Danielle’s drive to the park is p minutes from work and 90 minutes from the park to her home. If Danielle’s total commute (c) took two hours today, how long was Danielle’s drive to the park from work? Set up your equation when total commute time (c) depends on the time to drive to the park (p).

Equation: ______________
p=88 minutes
p=70 minutes
p=40 minutes
p=30 minutes

Answer 1

The equation is;

p + 90 = 120 minutes

Danielle’s drive from work to the park took 30 minutes ( p = 30 minutes)

Explanation:

Here, we want to write and solve an equation

Here, we want to get the time taken by Daniele from the park to work

From the question, the total commute is two hours

since 1 hour is 60 minutes, it follows that 2 hours is 120 minutes

Now, if we added the time taken to commute both journeys, we have the total as 2 hours

This means;

p + 90 = 120 minutes

p = 120 - 90

p = 30 minutes