Hi there
So, if the track is 1/8 of a mile, let's call every lap a "one-eighth mile" run. We know John ran 24 laps, or that he ran 24 "one-eighth miles," just consecutive, one right after another. Let's stop worrying about rates or tricks or math for a second, and just ask: how many real miles is 24 "one-eighth" miles? We know it's less than 24---a lot less, since you have to go around 8 times just to get to 1 mile. Well wait, if we go around 8 times, we get 1 mile. That means if we go around 28, or 16 times, we get 2 miles; And let's just think to the next full mile---if we go 38, or 24 times, we get 3 miles. He did go around 24 times, so he must have run 3 miles on a 1/8 track.
Division and multiplication are inverses of each other. So we solved this by looking for an intuition for how many full miles corresponded to how many laps, with a bunch of steps of multiplication. But you can cut right to the chase and solve it faster with division---24 laps * 1 mile per 8 laps, means:
total distance = 24 Lap (1 mi / 8 Lap) total distance = 24/8 total distance = 3
Answer:
143/9 = 15.89
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
Width of the garden = 22.8 foot
Step-by-step explanation:
Area of the rectangular garden = 2077 square feet.
Let
Width of the garden = x
Length of the garden = 4x
Area of a rectangular garden = length × width
2077 = 4x * x
2077 = 4x²
x² = 2077/4
x² = 519.25
find the square root of both sides
x = √519.25
x = 22.787057730211
To the nearest tenth of a foot.
x = 22.8 foot
Width of the garden = 22.8 foot
Hi there!
To find equivalent fractions, we need to multiply both the numerator and the denominator by the same number.
These equivalent fractions are the original fractions multiplied by 2/2:
2/3 = 4/6
1/2 = 2/4
5/12 = 10/24
Hope this helps!
