The question is asking for how many minutes it walks. Since it walks 5 meter per minute and walks 62.5 meters, you have to divide 62.5 by 5 to get how many minutes the tortoise walks. 62.5 divide by 5 is 12.5. in minutes, 0.5 is 30 seconds, therefore the tortoise walked for 12 minutes and 30 seconds or 12 1/2 minutes.

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Jada solved the equation Negative StartFraction 4 over 9 EndFraction = StartFraction x over 108 EndFraction for x using the step

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Answer: First option.

Step-by-step explanation:

The complete exercise is attached.

In order to solve this exercise, it is necessary to remember the following property:

The Multiplication property of Equality states that:

$If\ a=b\ then\ a*c=b*c$

In this case, the equation that Jada had is the folllowing:

$-\frac{4}{9}=\frac{x}{108}$

Jada needed to solve for the variable "x" in order to find its value.

The correct procedure to solve for for "x" is to multiply both sides of the equation by 108. Then, you get:

$(108)(-\frac{4}{9})=(\frac{x}{108})(108)\\\\-48=x$

As you can notice in the picture, Jada did not multiply both sides of the equation by 108, but multiplied the left side by $-\frac{4}{9}$ <em> </em>and the right side by $-\frac{9}{4}$ .

Therefore,you can conclude that Jada should have multiplied both sides of the equation by 108.

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