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Nita swam 4 laps in the pool in 14 min how long did it take her to swim 10 laps

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let x = time in minutes it takes Nita to swim 10 laps
you can set up a proportion for this:

(4 laps)/(10 laps)= (14 mins)/(x)
cross multiply to get:
4x=140
divide both sides by 4 to get your final answer:
x=35
so to swim 10 laps in the pool, it took Nita 35 minutes
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Most of the information's that are required to solve the problem is already provided in the question.
Time taken by Nita to swim 4 laps = 14 minutes
Time taken by Nita to swim 10 laps = (14/4) * 10
= 7 * 5
= 35
So Nita will needs 35 minutes to swim 10 laps if her speed of swimming is the same. Hope I have answered the question in the manner you were looking for. This method is the only and easy method to solve such problems.



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