You're traveling at 80 miles per hour.

[trof]

You're on a clear highway, your cruise control is set at 80 MPH.
There is no traffic.
You are cruising at 80.

How long will it take you to go 80 miles?
This is not a trick question.
It's very straightforward.

You would be absolutely amazed at how many people DO NOT get the concept of 'miles per hour'.

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	1. 80 nimutes
	1 (10%)
	2. An hour and 20 minutes
	1 (10%)
	3.What kind of car?
	1 (10%)
	4. One hour
	6 (60%)
	5. 8 minutes
	1 (10%)
	6. 10 minutes
	0 (0%)
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[liberal N proud]

1. Depends on how many times I have to slow down for the left lane loafers.

Should be a easy hour but you know some asshole will set their but in the left lane @65 mph.

[trof]

4. over thinking

[KamaAina]

2. How fast is the train going the opposite way going?

[trof]

5. Pancake

[edgineered]

3. If there is no traffic your car is sitting still. You're going nowhere. nt

[trof]

6. under thinking

[edgineered]

7. No one has ever accused me of being too smart or knowing too much.

Long, long ago when I would do time/distance or mixture problems in my head and without hesitation I may have quickly guessed at an answer. Now it would take me an hour - and I would have to back track the 80 miles in hopes of remembering to set the odometer first to see how far it was. Damn, now I've forgotten the question.

[frogmarch]

8. An hour, but I hope

she dumps the jerk for posting that on You Tube.

[petronius]

9. It will take me 61 minutes:

60 minutes of travel time, after a 1 minute wait so MrScorpio can get out in front to 'scout' for cops...

[In_The_Wind]

24. Hahaha

[Xyzse]

29. This is where I'm at.

[BlueJazz]

10. I chose 8 minutes. 8X80=640 squared root of 640 is about 25.3 25.3X3.162= about 80

I am a gunious

[Wounded Bear]

11. Going east or west?

Rotation of the earth will affect the outcome.

[csziggy]

12. So the woman in the video probably wouldn't understand this story

Soul-Destroying Math
home | MA, USA | Exams/Tests, Popular
(My sons are in the middle of taking the required standardized testing for our state, which they detest.)

Older Son: “What sort of questions did they have on your test?”

Younger Son: “The usual. You know — If you throw a triangle out the window of a train going 50 miles an hour and there is air friction, how many cupcakes can Pedro buy with one human soul?”

Everyone: *blinks, bursts out laughing*
https://notalwayslearning.com/soul-destroying-math/40579

[Capt.Rocky300]

13. Which way is the wind blowing?

[catnhatnh]

14. Am I going

the same way I am?

[GreydeeThos]

15. By Ferris Bueller's calculus

A 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder up on blocks will take 80 NIMUTES to travel 80 reverse miles. That is as long as it stays on the blocks.

[Recursion]

17. How long is a NIMUTE? (nt)

[GreydeeThos]

18. You have to ask Trof (it is the first answer in the poll)

It is a general rule of thumb in answering a multiple choice question to always pick the answer with the odd component that sets it off from the other answers. All the choices used units of minutes except for the first one which used nimutes. By default, it is the correct answer.

[Recursion]

16. Well, my clock will have slowed down by a factor of 80/c (nt)

[Shankapotomus]

19. Amazing!

How do you know all this about me?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

20. Is there really a highway that's clear for 80 miles? n/t

[In_The_Wind]

25. Between 3 and 4AM on I-84. eom

[MosheFeingold]

28. Come to New Mexico

I tend to stay ~90mph. But don't speed in Tatum or Roswell.

[Ptah]

31. West of the Mississippi River.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. A trick question in England

First of all, if you drive 80mph in England, you will drive into the ocean before the hour's up. Plus, traffic cameras will cause your family to receive speeding tickets after you're drowned.

Second, they don't have miles in England, only kilometers. So you need to divide by five and multiply by eight, or is the other way 'round.

[Orrex]

22. If the highway is in Iowa, the answer is decided by coin toss.

[Donkees]

23. Is there gas in the car?

[malthaussen]

26. Depends on whether I stop or not.

Urination waits for no man.

-- Mal

[DFW]

27. I was going to say, was this on the autobahn?

Because if it is, you're going to get passed by about 75% of the cars on the road!

[A HERETIC I AM]

33. West Texas! n/t

[DFW]

34. Such irony

Germans would love to have a stretch of Autobahn that went for two hundred miles straight in one direction.

Texans would love to have a stretch of Interstate where they could drive 140 MPH legally.

[A HERETIC I AM]

37. The 80 MPH section of I-10 stretches from roughly the 480 MM....

to the 75 MM outside El Paso, so a little over 400 miles. I'll be on that in 2 days, albeit in a truck that won't do more than 65

[kentauros]

40. I haven't used I-10 in years.

My father keeps suggesting I use it to get to Austin, but I'm so used to (and like) the drive along 290 that I just don't consider taking a different route. Speed isn't as important to me as are things to observe along the way.

[Brother Buzz]

30. I ain't got cruise control and my speedometer is busted so you have to spot me a few miles...

so I can use my watch and mile markers to dial in 80 MPH, but I'm guessing four beers.

[kentauros]

32. Nautical or Statute?

And if nautical miles, British or International?

[Ptah]

36. Doesn't matter; eighty of them per hour.

[kentauros]

39. Well, 60 minutes also equals one degree.

[ghostsinthemachine]

38. What if you have a flat tire on a rowboat

how many bananas does it take to shingle a dog house?

[noamnety]

41. The last time I took my car on a road trip

the transmission freaked out and the forward gears stopping working, but I was able to put it in reverse and cruise around like that til I got to a service station.

I see you wrote this is all straight forward, but what if our car can't handle that?