Speed, distance and time word problems
The question
What is its speed in km per hour?
A cargo ship travels 125 km in 5 hours.
A cargo ship travels 125 km in 5 hours.
numbers:1255
125 ÷ 5
asked:What is its speed in km per hour?
125 ÷ 5 =25
25 km/h
- Read the whole story first, before picking out numbers.
- The numbers are 125 and 5. What to do with them comes from the story.
- Distance divided by time is speed — the whole distance split over the hours gives how far you went in one. So this one is a division: 125 ÷ 5.
- 125 ÷ 5 = 25 km/h — that answers "What is its speed in km per hour?".
How it works.
- 01
Read the whole story first, before picking out numbers.
- 02
The numbers are 125 and 5. What to do with them comes from the story.
- 03
Distance divided by time is speed — the whole distance split over the hours gives how far you went in one. So this one is a division: 125 ÷ 5.
- 04
125 ÷ 5 = 25 km/h — that answers "What is its speed in km per hour?".