My created Word problem:
A person walks 50 miles in 500 minutes. If the person walked at an equivalent distance per hour, how far did the person go in 1 hour?
Solving the word problem:
Note that:
Converting the minutes into hours:
- 500 minutes = 6 20/60 = 6 1/3 hours
Converting the hours into improper fraction:
- 50 miles = 6 1/3 hours
- => 50 miles = 19/3 hours
Using cross multiplication:
- => 50 x 3 miles = 19 hours
- => 150 miles = 19 hours
Dividing 19 both sides:
- 150/19 miles = 19/19 hours
- => 1 hour = 150/19 miles
