It takes a worker 9 minutes to drive from home to work at an average rate of 20 kilometers per hour. How many minutes will it take the worker to cycle from home to work along the same route at an average rate of 6 kilometers per hour?
A
30
B
32
C
35
D
36
E
40
Correct answer: A
Explanation
distance = time*speed = (9/60)(20) kilometers
time to bike = distance/speed = (9*20)/(60*6) = 30/60 hours = 30 minutes.
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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