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Selena rides her bicycle to work. It takes her 15 minutes to go 3 miles. How many feet will she travel in 3 minutes
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Selena rides her bicycle to work. It takes her 15 minutes to go 3 miles. How many feet will she travel in 3 minutes

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in 3 minutes she goes 0.6 miles
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You can set up a proportion for this problem. So, 3/15=x/3. Cross multiply to get 15x=9, and then divide both sides of the equation by 15 to get x as 0.6. So Selena travels 0.6 of a mile in 3 minutes.

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