Question

Nayarit wants to swim 50 miles this school year. She plans to swim 1/4 mile each day. How many days will it takes her to swim 50 miles?

Answer 1

It will take 200 days to swim 50 miles. I basically use proportion since I knew 1 miles equal to 4 day of swimming, I multiplied 50 and 4..

Answer 2

The correct answer is 200 days.

Explanation:

Let's start by analyzing the information we have:

We know that Nayarit plans to swim 1/4 mile each day.

We know that her goal is to achieve 50 miles.

What we must find out is how many days it will take her to reach 50 miles if she swims 1/4 of a mile per day, and we can do it through a cross multiplication as follows:

If: 1/4 ------- in 1 Day

50 miles ------ in x days

`(1)/(4) . x = 50. 1`

`x= 50 : (1)/(4)`

`x= 200`

Therefore, the correct answer is 200 days.