Problema Solution

Stewart is a star athlete on the hollywood high school football team he can run 20 yards in 2.9 seconds during the last football game stewart ran 64 yards for the winning touchdown if Stewarts rate of speed remained the same approximately how long did it take him to run for the touchdown.

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Let 't' represent the time Stewart needs to run for the touchdown.

20 : 2.9 = 64 : t

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t = 9.28 s

Stewart ran for 9.28 seconds.