Initially to make the problem a bit more manageable ignore the .25 hours and just solve for 7 hours. If he runs 5.5 miles per hour this would be considered his rate. So you can multiply 5.5 miles by the 7 hours he ran. This will give you the distance he ran after 7 hours. But in the problem he runs for an extra quarter of an hour so how do we include this in our answer. First, figure out the rate of how far he runs every quarter of an hour. To compute this take your original rate 5.5 mi/hr and divide it by 4 to get it in terms of quarters of an hour: 5.5/4 = 1.375 <--- add this to your previous answer to get the total distance he ran.
sorry but I like to do stupid things, "nearest cent" ur talking about miles silly.
anywho, this question provided me with brain cancer, and I haven't done this in such a long time that I'm going to guess and hope this is correct.
ok so, what I am doing here is simple. according to my trash 9th grade math skills it takes 11 minutes to run a mile, so I'm just trying to be smart and take "0.25" as 25 minutes, according to my math skills that would be 2 miles with 3 minutes left to spare. this part got me hot no lie : so he'd run 3.66s of a mile in 3 minutes which still confuses me to this day.
so with my brain and stupidity I am saying it's a solid 44.16
