Question

5. A cruise ship can cover 20 nautical miles in 340 minutes. How many nautical miles will it travel in 102 minutes?


A. 4


B. 8


C. 10


D. 6
please help me

Answer 1

Proportions, proportions. Let's set it up.

Answer 2

Do you know how to solve proportions?

Answer 3

I know you times something im just not sure what

Answer 4

Alrighty.

Answer 5

Solve for x, and you've got your answer. :)

Answer 6

Do you get what's going on? :)

Answer 7

not really

Answer 8

Where are you stuck?

Answer 9

Is it the cross multiplying?

Answer 10

what do you multiply

Answer 11

7 and x (You get 7 from reducing 340). See how you go across?
Then you multiply 1 (From reducing 20) and 102, again crossing over.

Answer 12

17*

Answer 13

Oops, wrong number. Not 7, it's 17.