Question

A marathon is 26.2 miles long. There is a water station every 1 and 3/100 miles along the race route. Which expression represents the total number of water stations?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

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Answer 2

We are told that a marathon is 26.2 miles long. There is a water station every 1 and 3/100 miles along the race route. We are supposed to write an expression that represents the total number of water stations.

Let x be total number of water stations.

First of all we will convert our mixed fraction into improper fraction.

`1(3)/(100) =(103)/(100)`

The total number of water station in the marathon of 26.2 miles will be,

`(103)/(100)\cdot x=26.2`

`x=26.2\cdot(100)/(103)`

Therefore,
`x=26.2\cdot(100)/(103)` will represent the total number of water stations.