Oh Foxy, Foxy, how totally debilitated you must be ! Try to relax. Nobody
enjoys a painful brain, and believe me, this problem is not worth it.
Let me put it to you this way: What if the problem said . . .
-- Demarcus has $8 more than his sister.
-- His sister has $4.
-- How much money ' M ' does Demarcus have ?
If your brain didn't hurt, you could quickly solve this right in there.
You would know that Demarcus' money ' M ' = 8 + 4 .
That's <em>almost </em>exactly what the problem <em>does</em> say.
Except it doesn't say he has "$8 more than his sister",
it says he has "at least" that much.
So you know that ' M ' is not exactly = 8 + 4, but that's the <u>least</u> it could be.
The actual amount of ' M ' is <u>more</u> than that.
Surely you can handle it from here, even with half of your brain
tied behind your back.
Take a good hard look at ' A ', and then go lie down.
Answer:
1 1/2 miles
Step-by-step explanation:
if running 1 lap around a track is 1/2 miles then all we have to do is add it up
so we know that 1/2 miles is one lap
so if he runs two laps we would have run 1 mile
now that we know that he would have ran 1 mile in 2 laps then all we have to do it just add 1 more 1/2 mile in which would give u the answer of 1 1/2 miles or 1.5 miles
For number 3, it is reciprocal
and for number 4, it is whole number
