Finding Speed Rate

Addison drove 1,080 miles in 20 hours. What was her speed in miles per hour?

• 20 miles per hour

• 10.80 miles per hour

• 54 miles per hour

• 0.018 miles per hour

Tracey ran 1,000 meters in 5 minutes. How many meters/minute did she run?

• 20 meters per minute

• 5 meters per minute

• 200 meters per minute

• .005 meters per minute

Isabella flew 600 miles in 120 minutes. How many miles per minute did she fly?

• 5 miles per minute

• .20 miles per minute

• 50 miles per minute

• 60 miles per minute

Jacob can run 6 laps per minute. What equation shows the relationship between the number of laps (y) Jacob can run in x amount of minutes?

• Y = 1x

• Y = 6X

• K = y/x

• 6

Mr. Deutsch ran 42 miles in 8 hours. What was his miles per hour?

• 4.25
  336
  336

• 4.2

• 5.2

• 5.25

A caterpillar crawled 20 ft in 25 minutes. What was the caterpillar's rate of speed in feet per minute?

• 0.8 feet per minute

• 1.25 feet per minute

• 5 feet per minute

• 500 feet per minute

Suppose that a butterfly can fly 82 feet in 4 seconds.  A dragonfly can fly 50 feet in 2 seconds.  Which can fly faster and by how much?

• The dragonfly is 4.5 feet per second faster.

• The dragonfly is 20.5 feet per second faster.

• The butterfly is 4.5 feet per second faster. 

• The butterfly is 24 feet per second faster. 

A car travels 360 miles in 6 hours. Calculate the speed of the car in miles per hour.

• 50 mph

• 55 mph

• 60 mph

• 65 mph

Dalila runs a 5K race at a steady rate of 11 kilometers per hour. Lulu starts a 10K race at the same time. She runs at the steady rate shown in the table. Who runs at a faster rate?

• Dalila

• Lulu

Jerome went on a hike. He climbed three-fourths of a mile in two thirds of an hour. What was his hiking speed in miles per hour?