Unit 3 · Measurement and Data

Three Flights — What Time in Sydney?

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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.

Chapters

0:00Introduction
0:21The Question
1:10Accumulating Total Elapsed Journey Time
1:38Translating the Departure Time into Sydney's Framework
2:15Adding the Travel Time to Find Arrival
2:50Exam Strategy — The Single-Reference Point Timeline Rule
3:31Confirming the Final Option

Question

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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