Problema Solution
the alipine runners ran 16 and 1/3 miles in 4 hours. how many miles did they run in one hour?
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Let 'd' represent the distance ran in 1 hour.
16 and 1/3 miles = 16 + 1/3 = (1 + 16*3)/3
Assuming that the runners ran with constant rate we can write:
d : 1 = ((1 + 16*3)/3) : 4
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d = 49/12
d = 4 1/12 mi
The alpine runners ran 4 and 1/12 miles in one hour.