A team of horses travels 1,680 miles from California to Missouri to deliver a letter. The team completes the trip in 10 days. What was the team's average speed during the trip? Include any rest stops in the calculation. One day is the same as 24 hours.

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anonymous · Answer

10 days * 24 hours = 240 hours.
1680 miles / 240 hours = 168/24 = 84/12 = 42/6 = 21/3 = 7 miles/hour, or 7mph.

anonymous · Answer

How do we include reststops
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anonymous · Answer

Don't worry about the rest stops, that's a distraction from the real question.

anonymous · Answer

By which I mean, they're already included: You know how long the team took to get there, and how far they traveled.