Question

if you pay 50 dollars an hour for a drive on a bus how much would you pay if you rode for four hours and thirty minutes

Answer 1

50 dollars = x
___________=________

1 hour 4.5 hours

Cross multiply

Answer 2

$50---60minutes
$? ___ 270 mintes

Answer 3

225 = x

Does that make sense?

Answer 4

So you just multiply 270 by 50 and divide by 60 the you get the number

Answer 5

Babybluepies an I both showed two different ways to do it. He converted hours into minutes while I stayed with hours. Don't get too confused with these two ways to get the same answer.

Answer 6

yeah, sorry