Question

Trisha runs 3 miles every 50 minutes. At this rate, how many minutes did Trisha run in 12 miles?

Answer 1

200 minutes ; 3 hours and 20 minutes.

Explanation:

If you write a proportion in the form

miles/minutes = miles/minutes

you would get 3/50 = 12/x

from there you cross multiply to get

3x=600, and solve that to get 200 minutes.

another way was to see that 12 is 3*4, and multiply 50 by 4 to get the same answer.