Practice #13 Answers

  1. If you can travel an average of 15 miles per hour on a bicycle, how long will it take you to travel 50 miles.

    3 hours and 20 minutes or 3 1/3 hours

  2. Two thousand five hundred flights took off from Boston's Logan International Airport in the last two days. At that rate, how many will take off in the next week (7 days)?

    8750 take offs

  3. If Japan and the United States combined to spend approximately 65% of the world's private expenditures which totaled nearly 3.2 trillion dollars, how much did they spend? Keep your answer in trillions of dollars, round the hundredths place.

    2.08 trillion dollars have been spent by Japan and the US.

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