HURRICANES A category 3 hurricane reaches speeds up to 20.88 kilometers per hour. The distance from Cuba to Key West is 145 kilometers. Write and solve a multiplication equation to find how long it would take a category 3 hurricane to travel from Cuba to Key West.
Let us assume that the time taken by the category 3 hurricane to travel from Cuba to Key West = X minutes Speed of the category 3 hurricane is given as 20.88 km/hr So the category 3 hurricane can travel 20.88 km in 1 hour. The distance between Cuba and Key West = 145 km Then 20.88 km is travelled by the category 3 hurricane in = 60 minutes 145 km from Cuba to Key west is travelled by the category 3 hurricane in = X minutes So, X = [(145 * 60)/20.88] minutes = 416.66 minutes = 17 hours and 36 minutes Time taken by the category 3 hurricane to reach Key West from Cuba is 17 hours and 36 minutes.
