A cyclist rides his bike at a rate of
9 miles per hour. What is this rate in miles per minute? How many miles will the cyclist travel in
2 minutes? Do not round your answers.

Question

A cyclist rides his bike at a rate of 
9 miles per hour. What is this rate in miles per minute? How many miles will the cyclist travel in 
2 minutes? Do not round your answers.

royalranger · Answer

You just need to convert hours to minutes

lyssburleson · Answer

how would you do that though?

lyssburleson · Answer

540?

lyssburleson · Answer

so is that the rate per minute?

royalranger · Answer

Wait a second, i just realized where i screwed up, i was wondering why it looked weird lol

royalranger · Answer

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royalranger · Answer

Do you see what i did? we need to convert hours to minutes. So first we need the hours to cancel out. So we must have hours on top, and there are 60 minutes in every hour. So 60 goes on the bottom. now we get miles/min

lyssburleson · Answer

okay thanks

mathmale · Answer

Please actually do this problem, and share your work and your result.  You'd get better feedback that way.