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If you run a marathon of 26 1/5 miles in a time of 5 4/5 how far do you run in 1 hour

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User Adrian W
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First let's make both the miles and the hours ran improper fractions:


26+(1)/(5)=(131)/(5)\\ 5+(4)/(5)=(29)/(5)

So, to find our miles per hour, we have to divide the miles by the hours to get:
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