Answer:
480 minutes or ≈ 8 hours
Step-by-step explanation:
We know that Enrique walks one mile each day for 4 days of the week. We also know that the estimated time it would take for him to complete the mile is about 14 to 16 minutes. To make it easier, let's use 15 minutes. The question is asking to estimate the number of minutes Enrique would walk within a span of 8 weeks. Let's start with the equation that represents the number of miles Enrique would walk in weeks.
So we have the fact that he walks 4 days out of the week, now though the question asks the equation to represent the number of miles, the obvious answer is 4x, 4 representing the days, and x representing the number of minutes. I would say it's safe to assume that the equation should represent the amount of time he would take, which would also be represented with 4x.
As for the equation : 4x is your answer.
Now we need to explain how I determined the estimate, so let's do the math.
Since we are using 15 minutes to represent the estimate, we could replace x with 15 in the equation 4x.
4(15)
60 minutes
Meaning that in one week, Enrique would spend around 1 hour walking. Now we need to look for the amount of time within an 8 week span, so do the following and multiply 60 by 8 :
60 * 8
480 minutes
Therefore, within an 8 week span, Enrique would spend about 480 minutes or 8 hours walking.
