Distance, Rate and Time

Distance, Rate and Time

DRT

Multiple Choice

If a car travels 400 meters in 20 seconds, how fast is it going? (What is the rate?)

• 8,000 meters per second

• 2 meters per second

• 20 meters per second

Rate = Distance $\div$  Time

400  $\div$  20 = 20 meters per second

Multiple Choice

How long will it take for a bug to crawl 5 meters across the floor if it is traveling at 1 meter per second?

• 5 seconds

• 5 meters

Time = Distance ÷ Rate

5 ÷ 1 = 5 meters per second

Multiple Choice

If you run 50 yards in 10 seconds, what is your rate? (How fast are you running?)

• 500 yards per second

• 5 yards per second

Rate = Distance ÷ Time

50 ÷ 10 = 5 yards per second

Multiple Choice

How far can you get away from your little brother with a water gun filled with paint if you run at 3 feet per second and you have 15 seconds before he sees you?

• 5 seconds

• 45 seconds

Distance = Rate x Time

3 x 15 = 45 feet

Multiple Choice

You arrive in my class 45 seconds after leaving P.E. which is 90 feet away. How fast did you walk? (What is your rate?)

• 2 feet per second

• 4,050 feet per second

Rate = Distance $\div$  Time

90  $\div$  45 = 2 feet per second

Multiple Choice

How do you calculate distance?

• Divide the speed by the time (speed/time)

• Multiply the rate of speed by the time (rate x time)

• divide the rate by the distance

Multiple Choice

How do you calculate speed? (rate)

• divide the time by the distance (time/distance)

• Divide the distance by the time (distance/time)

• multiply the distance by the time (distance x time)

• multiply the speed by the time (speed x time)

Multiple Choice

How do you calculate time?

• Multiply the rate by the distance

  
  (rate x distance)

• Divide the distance by the time

  
  
  

  (Distance/Time)

• Divide the distance by the rate

  
  
  

  (Distance/Rate)

Multiple Choice

What are the underlined words?

Mike can run 50 miles per hour. If he ran for 3 hours, how far would he get?

• Distance

• Rate of Speed

• Time

Multiple Choice

Sarah walked at a constant speed of 20 blocks per hour. If she walked for 30 minutes how many blocks did she walk?

• 60 blocks

• 15 blocks

• 10 blocks

Multiple Choice

If Courtney drove at a constant speed of 65 miles per hour for 5.5 hours, how many total miles did he drive?

• 357.5 miles

• 11.8 miles per hour

• 350 miles

Multiple Choice

Maggie lives 15 km away from her friend. If she walks at a constant speed of 5 km per hour, how long will it take her to get to her friends house?

• 2 hours

• 3 hours

• 2.5 hours

• 3 km/hour

Multiple Choice

Avery likes to walk 30 feet in 10 seconds. What is her speed?

• 3 feet/sec

• 6 feet/sec

• 10 feet/sec

• 2 feet/sec

Multiple Choice

Ellie drove her car at a constant speed of 70 miles per hour. If she drives for 120 minutes, how many miles will she drive?

• 600 miles

• 2.4 miles

• 140 miles

Multiple Choice

What is the speed of a cheetah that travels 112.0 m in 4.0 s?

• 0.0357 m/s

• 28 m/s

• 0.036 m/s

• 28.0 m/s

Multiple Choice

Harry ran for 2 hours. If he ran a total of 6 miles, what was his speed? (think miles per hour)

• 2 miles per hour

• 12 miles per hour

• 3 miles per hour