To solve this, you first have to find the number of yards in one mile.
If three feet = 1 yard, and 5280 ft = 1 mile, all you have to do to find the number of yards in a mile is divide 5280 feet by 3 feet.
You end up with 1760 yards in 1 mile.
To find the number of yards in 2 miles, all you would have to do is multiply 1760 by 2
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1760 x 2 = <u>
3520 yards</u></h3>
We have 8 dozen bagels, or 8*12=96 bagels. Each plate can hold 14 bagels, so we have enough bagels to fill 96/14=about 6.86 plates. However, we cannot have a fraction of a plate, so we round up to have a total of seven plates. To fill all seven plates fully, 7*14=98 bagels would be needed, which is two more than we have.
To summarize, Mr. Corsetti has seven plates of bagels, and would need two more bagels to fill the last one up.
He wants to believe that he can change his circumstances by being in the right place at the right time.
