Kyle can walk ½ mile in ¼ of an hour. What is Kyle’s speed in miles per hour?

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    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
     

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