A cyclist rides his bike at a rate of 6 miles per hour. What is this rate in miles per minute? How many miles will the cyclist travel in 5 minutes? Do not round your answers.
In order to find the distance traveled in one minute, you have to divide the distance he can ride his bike in an hour by the number of minutes in a hour. 6/60= .1 mile per minute. If he rides his bike for five minutes, then you would multiply the number of minutes biked by the distance traveled in a minute. .1*5=.5 mile, or [tex] \frac{1}{2} [/tex] mile.
