Question

During the 1968 olympic games mamo wolde of Ethiopia ran 26.21875 miles in 2.341 hours. About how many miles did he run each hour?

Answer 1

He ran 11.200 miles per hour.

Explanation:

The amount of miles the runner ran in hours can be expressed as a ratio (fraction):

`(miles)/(hour) =(22.21875)/(2.341)=(11.1998)/(1)`

Since the answer is 11.1998, we can round to the nearest tenth (first place after the decimal) to get 11.2 miles per hour.