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LeRoy ran a total of 15 miles last month. He ran 5/8 miles each day. How many days did he run?

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Answer:

24 days

Explanation:

We wish to eliminate the unit of measurement "miles," ending up with the number of days on which LeRoy ran.

Recall that distance = rate times time. Here

distance

-------------- = time

rate

Plugging in the appropriate quantities (given in the problem statement),

15 miles 15 3

----------------------- = -------- days = -------- days = 24 days

(5/8) (mi/day) 5/8 1/8

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