Nate’s work to solve a math problem is shown below. Problem: Leona traveled 25 miles in Two-thirds of an hour. What was her aver

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Nate’s work to solve a math problem is shown below. Problem: Leona traveled 25 miles in Two-thirds of an hour. What was her aver

age speed in miles per hour? Step 1: 25 divided by two-thirds = r Step 2: StartFraction 1 Over 25 EndFraction times two-thirds = r Answer: StartFraction 2 Over 75 EndFraction = r What was Nate’s first error? He used division instead of multiplication to model the problem in step 1. He switched the divisor and the dividend when creating an equation to model the problem in step 1. He replaced the wrong term with its reciprocal in step 2. He should not have changed division to multiplication in step 2.

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