Question

If the car covers 120 km in 3 hours, how much distance will be covered in $5\frac{1}{2}$ hours?

Answer 1

The car covers 120 km in 3 hours.

Distance covered in 1 hour = 120 ÷ 3 = 40 km
Distance covered in $\frac{1}{2}$ hour = 40 ÷ 2 = 20 km
Distance covered in 5 hours = 5 x 40 = 200 km

Distance covered in $5\frac{1}{2}$ hours = 200 km + 20 km
= 220 km

Thus, the distance covered in $5\frac{1}{2}$ hours is 220 kilometres.