It takes a slug, 20 minutes to travel from his favorite bush to the local trash can (a trip of 30 meters), how far can he travel in 1 hour (60 minutes)?
1 Answer
Sep 21, 2017
90 meters
Explanation:
20 minutes - 30 meters
60 minutes - ? meters
There are two ways to solve this.
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The first (slightly longer) way is to find how many meters the slug travels per minute.
so in 60 minutes it would travel
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The second method requires you to realise that 60 is three times 20.
That means you just have to multiply the distance traveled in 20 minutes by 3 to get the distance traveled in 60 minutes.