Question

Nicole runs each lap in 4 minutes. She will run more than 24 minutes today. What are the possible numbers of laps she will run today

Answer 1

7 or more laps. you can find this by multiplying 6 x 4 & anything above that would work too

Answer 2

Nicole will run more than 6 laps. It may be 7 or more.

`n\geq 6`

Explanation:

Time taken by Nicole to complete one lap = 4 minute

Let the number of laps completed in 24 minutes = n

Then total time taken to cover n laps = 4n

If she runs more than 24 minutes.

Then the inequality will be
`4n \geq 24`

Total number of laps completed by Nicole in 24 minutes =
`\frac{\text{Total time}}{\text{Time taken to complete one lap}}`

=
`(24)/(4)`

= 6 laps

So the inequality will be
`n\geq 6`

Therefore, she will run more than 6 laps today.