A car travels 90 km in 1.5 hours. What is the average speed of the car?
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Use common measures of rate (pay, exchange, flow, fuel) and other rates (pressure, density, population density), and solve problems involving average speed.
A car travels 90 km in 1.5 hours. What is the average speed of the car?
An employee earns $14.50 per hour. Calculate her total pay for working 35 hours.
[1 mark]Find the average speed, in metres per second, of a runner who completes a 200-metre race in 25 seconds.
[2 marks]An object has a mass of 240 g and a volume of 30 cm³. Find its density, in g/cm³.
[2 marks]The exchange rate is $1 = €0.85. How many euros does $400 convert to?
A train travels at an average speed of 80 km/h for 1.5 hours and then at an average speed of 100 km/h for the next 2 hours.
Find the total distance travelled by the train.
[2 marks]Find the average speed of the train for the entire journey. Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
[1 mark]A town has a population of 18 000 people and an area of 24 km². Calculate the population density, in people per km².
[2 marks]Water flows from a tap at a rate of 2.5 litres per minute into a tank of capacity 600 litres. The tank already contains 75 litres. Find the time, in hours and minutes, that it takes to fill the tank from this point.
[2 marks]