Question

In a team bike race, each biker has to ride exactly 50 miles. the team must complete 560 miles.how many miles must each biker travel?

Answer 1

12 bikers are required.

Explanation:

Each Biker has to ride 50 miles

Let number of bikers be x

so total travel by x bikers = 50 multiplied by x = 50x

According to the question

50x = 560

Dividing both sides by 50 ,we get

`(560)/(50)`

x = 11.2

Since number of bikers cannot be in in decimals

therefore it is 12

12 bikers are required.

Answer 2

This is quite confusing as the number of miles that each biker is already given in the problem. I think what is being asked here is the number of bikers required to complete the 560 mile distance. This can be answer by dividing 560 miles by 50 miles per biker which would actually give us 11.2 or approximately 12 bikers.