Question

A car traveld 32 miles in 4 hours at this rate how many miles will the car travel in 0.5 hours

Answer 1

4 miles

Explanation:

32 divided by 4=8

8 divided by 2= 4

since 0.5 is half of one hour

Answer 2

4 miles

Explanation:

In order to find how many miles the car will travel in 0.5 hours, we can set up a proportion.

`(32)/(4) = (x)/(0.5)`

We can now cross multiply to find the value of x.

`32 \cdot 0.5 = 16\\\\16/4 = 4`

So the car can travel 4 miles in 0.5 hours.

Hope this helped!