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Thanks everyone for these responses. I think Seagul over NZ's: Distance/MPH * 60 mins = number of minutes it will take. is the formula I am looking for. However I still dont 'see' what needs to be multiplied together and what needs to be divided into or by. Especially as by playing around...

If a car travels at a constant 80 mph how long does it take it to travel eight miles? I can work this out using my basic arithmetic because I can see that eight miles is ten percent of the eighty miles travelled in an hour so it must take ten percent of 60 minutes so answer is six minutes. But...