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The school's track is 1/4 mile long. If Janice can compete each lap in 1/10 of on hour, what is Janice's running speed? Include units of measure.​

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Answer: To find Janice's running speed, we need to determine how many miles she runs per hour.

We know that the track is 1/4 mile long and Janice can complete each lap in 1/10 of an hour. To find the total number of miles Janice runs in an hour, we can multiply the length of the track by the number of laps she completes in an hour.

Length of the track * number of laps = total miles

1/4 mile * (1/10 hour)^-1 = total miles

On the second equation, we are using the inverse of the time, to get the number of laps completed in an hour

The speed is distance over time, so we need to express the distance in miles and the time in hours.

So Janice's running speed is 4 miles/hour.

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