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Okay sy Math from uppers Next up driving in an

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average speed of forty miles an hour approximately how many

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minutes does it take roberto to travel to a town

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that's fifty two miles away Time to get dirty that's

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d rt wide to be precise D stands for distance

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r stands for raid and t stands for time distance

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equals rate times time right That's one of the famous

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old formulas we love All right so we have a

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distance and a rate and we're solving for time We

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got fifty two that's Our distance equals forty miles an

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hour times that time How many minutes So to figure

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out the time they're weeds divide both sides by forty

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to find that tea is fifty two over forty and

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that's one point three it was at one point three

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minutes or one point three hours Well the town's fifty

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two miles away It's pretty far for a one point

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three minutes unless you're superman or something So one point

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three is in units of hours and since our rate

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is in miles per hour in their sixty minutes in

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an hour at least still in california for they dial

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that back so one point three hours is one point

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three times sixty or seventy eight minutes And the answer

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is d and that was elegant way to solve it

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but you could've solved for how long it took you

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to go one mile and then multiply the whole thing

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out But we didn't need to do that here Okay 00:01:17.663 --> [endTime] We're done

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