Question

Andre and Priya are tracking the number of steps they walk. Andre records that he can walk 6000 steps in 50 minutes. Priya writes the equation y=118x, where y is the number of steps and x is the number of minutes she walks, to describe her step rate. This week, Andre and Priya each walk for a total of 5 hours. Who walks more steps?

Answer 1

Let's start by calculating the number of steps Andre walked. He recorded that he can walk 6000 steps in 50 minutes, which means that he can walk 6000/50=120 steps per minute. 5 hours = 5*60 = 300 minutes. So Andre has walked 120 * 300 = 36 000 steps.

Priya writes the equation y=118x in which y is the number of steps and x is the number of minutes. As already stated, 5 hours = 300 minutes. So x = 300. We replace x by its value and we get y = 118x = 118*300 = 35400 steps.

36000>34500 so Andre has walked more steps than Priya.

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