Question

mercedes walks 1.93 kilometers to a neighbors house in 23 minutes. assuming she walks at a constant speed write a proportion that represents how many kilometers. y, mercedes can walk in x minutes. then solve your proportion for y

Answer 1

Mercedes can walk 0.083913 km per minute

`y\text{ = 0.083913x}`

Here, we want to write a proportion and solve it

We want to get the number of kilometers y that mercedes can walk in x minutes

To get the value of y, we simply solve the proportion

Mathematically, the proportion would be;

`\begin{gathered} (y)/(x) \\ \\ \end{gathered}`

So, we proceed to divide the number of kilometers walked by the number of minutes

The proportion in this case will be;

`(1.93)/(23)\text{ = 0.083913 }`

So, what this means is that she can walk 0.083913 kilometers in a minutes

So if she walks 0.083913 kilometers in a minute, then, the number of kilometers y, walked in x minutes will be;

`y\text{ = 0.083913x}`