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Charles can walk 1/2 of a mile in 9 minutes. How much of a mile does he walk in 1 minute?, I am hanging Christmas decorations. I have 20 feet of garland. If I add a bow every 1/4 of a foot, how many bows will I have on my garland?, My usual snickerdoodle recipe calls for 3/4 cup of brown sugar. I am only making half of the recipe. How much brown sugar should I use?

User Vishnu T S
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Final answer:

Charles walks 1/18 of a mile in 1 minute. There will be 80 bows on the garland. You should use 3/8 cup of brown sugar for half of the recipe.

Step-by-step explanation:

Charles can walk 1/2 of a mile in 9 minutes.

To find how much of a mile he walks in 1 minute, we can set up a proportion.

In 9 minutes, he walks 1/2 mile.

So in 1 minute, he would walk 1/18 of a mile. This can be found by dividing 1/2 by 9.

Therefore, Charles walks 1/18 of a mile in 1 minute.

To find out how many bows you will have on your 20-feet garland, we can divide the length of the garland by the length that each bow occupies. E

ach bow occupies 1/4 of a foot, so we divide 20 by 1/4.

This gives us 20 divided by 1/4, which is equivalent to multiplying 20 by 4/1 or 80.

Therefore, you will have 80 bows on your garland.

If your usual snickerdoodle recipe calls for 3/4 cup of brown sugar, and you are only making half of the recipe, you need to divide 3/4 by 2 to find out how much brown sugar you should use.

Dividing 3/4 by 2 gives us 3/8. Therefore, you should use 3/8 cup of brown sugar for half of the recipe.

User Pierre Lebeaupin
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since half a mile is 2640 feet and he walked that in 9 minutes sooo uhm- (im brain storming it might not even be right) so if you divide 2640 divided by 9 you get 293, so most likely charles walked 293 feet each minute?

i think you will have 5 garlands

i believe you would use 1.5 cup of brown sugar

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