Question

The tape diagram models the lengths of two snowboarding trails. The expert trail is 750 meters longer than the beginner trail. How long is each trail? ( Beginner trail: 1 length. Expert trail: 4 lengths) ​

Answer 1

Answer:

In a tape diagram, each of the lengths represents a fixed quantity of something.

Let's suppose that each one of these lengths represents a distance d.

We also know that the expert trail is 750 meters longer than the beginner one.

And in the tape diagram, the expert trail has 3 more lengths than the beginner trail, then we must have that the difference in distance must be equivalent with the difference in lengths.

750m = 3*d

d = 750m/3 = 250m

Then each length in the tape diagram represents 250m

With this we can find the length of each trail.

The beginner trail has 1 length, then it is 1*250m = 250 meters long.

The expert trail has 4 lengths, then it is 4*250m = 1000 meters long.