Kyle can walk ½ mile in ¼ of an hour. What is Kyle’s speed in miles per hour?
We write this in terms of miles per hour as:
1/2 / 1/4
We want 1 for the denominator to represent an hour, so we multiply top and bottom of the fraction by 4:
4/2 / 4/4
2 / 1
2 miles per hour
We write this in terms of miles per hour as:
1/2 / 1/4
We want 1 for the denominator to represent an hour, so we multiply top and bottom of the fraction by 4:
4/2 / 4/4
2 / 1
2 miles per hour