Often, in story problems, the keyword that indicates division is PER.

When a story problem asks for the speed of a vehicle in miles per hour, set up the expression to divide the number of miles by the number of hours. You not only directly translate miles hours, but also identify the number of miles and number of hours by finding them elsewhere in the problem. See Example 19. Example 19: Translate the following word problem into a mathematical expression about speed: It takes three hours to travel 150 miles to grandmother's house. How do you find your average speed in miles per hour?

War in uganda In uganda there was a war between the right wing and left wing. Right wing had 2000 soldiers and left wing had 5000. After several of years fighting. UN decides to send half as many soldiers as the right wing had to help stop the war. After six months the UN managed to stop the war with 500 casualty loss

A train leaves from the station at 1 0clock. It takes 1n1/2 hour for the train to get to the destination. The speed of the train is around 100km per hour. Half way there, problems on the train delays the train with 10min. however after the train is good to go. The chauffeur obtains 5 of the 10 minutes by speeding the train. They arrive at the final destination at 3 oclock