Problema Solution
Solve using the five-step problem solving strategy. The Iditarod sled dog race race in Alaska extends for 1049 mi from Anchorage to Nome. If a musher is twice as far from Anchorage as from Nome, how many miles of the race has the musher completed?
Include a straight-line sketch of the race and identify each part defined in the problem on your sketch. Then solve.
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Let = distance from where musher is to Nome
= his distance to Anchorage
given:
The musher has traveled 699 and 1/3 miles