Solving Rate Problems Answers

Eduardo’s average speed on his commute to work was 55 miles per hour. On the way home, he hit traffic and only averaged 40 miles per hour. If the round trip took him 1.25 hours, which expression represents the distance, in miles, for his trip home that is missing from the table?

Sophie and Simon are peeling a pile of potatoes for lunch in the cafeteria. Sophie can peel all the potatoes by herself in 45 minutes, while it would take Simon 30 minutes to do the job working alone. If Sophie and Simon work together to peel the potatoes, how long will it take them?

If Jasper installs a floor himself, it will take him 7 hours. Working with Yolanda, it will take them 3 hours.

It takes 8 minutes for Byron to fill the kiddie pool in the backyard using only a handheld hose. When his younger sister is impatient, Byron also uses the lawn sprinkler to add water to the pool so it is filled more quickly. If the hose and sprinkler are used together, it takes 5 minutes to fill the pool. Which equation can be used to determine r, the rate in parts per minute, at which the lawn sprinkler would fill the pool if used alone?

Irina rode her bike to work at an average speed of 16 miles per hour. It started to rain, so she got a ride home along the same route in her coworker’s car at an average speed of 27 miles per hour. If Irina’s ride home in the car took 24 minutes (0.4 of an hour), how many hours was her bike ride to work, to the nearest tenth of an hour?

Milla and Luka are 3 kilometers apart and walking toward each other. Milla's average speed is 5 kilometers per hour and Luka's is 4 kilometers per hour.

Working together, Alex and Millie can file all the papers in the file cabinets in 4 hours. It would have taken Alex 6 hours to do the job alone. What is the missing value in the table that represents the part of the papers that Alex would file if Alex and Millie worked together?

Mike and Jamal are 9 miles apart, and are planning to meet up. Mike is walking at an average speed of 3 miles per hour to meet Jamal. Jamal is driving at an average speed of 25 miles per hour to meet Mike.

The average rate of the first part of Yi’s walk on a park loop was 4 miles per hour. She then met up with a friend and the two walked the rest of the way at an average rate of 5 miles per hour. The entire 3-mile walk took Yi 42 minutes (0.7 hour). Which equation can be used to solve for x, the time in hours that Yi spent walking before meeting her friend?

Yuto and Lian are at train stations 1,880 kilometers apart. Yuto boards a train heading east at an average speed of 220 kilometers per hour. At the same time, Lian boards a train heading west on a parallel track at an average speed of 250 kilometers per hour. How far has Lian traveled when the two trains pass each other?