Unit 3 · Measurement and Data
Three Flights — What Time in Sydney?
Lesson 13 of 13
About this lesson
Add up all the travel hours (6 + 24 + 20 = 50 h) and count forward from the Friday 1300 departure to get the Las Vegas arrival time — then add 17 hours to convert to Sydney time.
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Kylie lives in Las Vegas and she visits her cousin Mike who lives in Sydney.
Kylie leaves Las Vegas on Friday at 1300 local time on a 6-hour flight to New York.
She spends 24 hours in New York.
She then catches a 20-hour flight to Sydney.
The time in Las Vegas is 17 hours behind the time in Sydney.
What time is it in Sydney when Kylie arrives?
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