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Ever since the early years of the automobile,
police have been trying to catch speeding
motorists. At first, officers were equipped with
bicycles and stopwatches. They hid behind trees
or rocks and came out to pursue speeder. An
Eniglishman, Lord Montague of Beaulieu, recived
a ticket for driving 12 miles per hour.
1. At a speed of 12 ,iles per hour, about how many miles could Lord Montague travel in 1 minute? ________ mi
2. Tell how you solved this problem.___________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Complete the table. Use the formula
d= 0.2*t.
A car traveling at a speed of 12 miles per
hour is traveling 0.2 mile per minute. You can
use the following rule to calculate the distance
travled for any number of minuets
Distance =0.2 mile per minute
travled (d) * number of minutes (t)
You can aso use the formula d = 0.2 * t
where d stands for the distance travled in
miles adn t for the time in minutes.
For exsample, in 1 inute, the car will travel 0.2 mile ( 0.2 * 1.
Ever since the early years of the automobile,
police have been trying to catch speeding
motorists. At first, officers were equipped with
bicycles and stopwatches. They hid behind trees
or rocks and came out to pursue speeder. An
Eniglishman, Lord Montague of Beaulieu, recived
a ticket for driving 12 miles per hour.
1. At a speed of 12 ,iles per hour, about how many miles could Lord Montague travel in 1 minute? ________ mi
2. Tell how you solved this problem.___________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Complete the table. Use the formula
d= 0.2*t.
A car traveling at a speed of 12 miles per
hour is traveling 0.2 mile per minute. You can
use the following rule to calculate the distance
travled for any number of minuets
Distance =0.2 mile per minute
travled (d) * number of minutes (t)
You can aso use the formula d = 0.2 * t
where d stands for the distance travled in
miles adn t for the time in minutes.
For exsample, in 1 inute, the car will travel 0.2 mile ( 0.2 * 1.