Question

Inessa ran 3 laps in 8 minutes. How long would it take her to run 10 laps at this pace?

Answer 1

Answer:

$26.27$ minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

We can us rule of three to solve this problem.

We have that 3 laps are done in 8 minutes, and we want to know how much time it will take to run 10 laps:

laps      minutes

3 ----------->8

10----------->$x$

To find the value of x we do as follows:

$x=\frac{8*10}{3} =26.27$ minutes

we cross multiply the values, and divide by the remaining value, thus we have the time it takes to run 10 laps is 26.27 minutes