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Jami's goal is to run a mile in 6 minutes on her treadmill. How many miles per hour would she need to set the speed of the treadmill to accomplish this?

The price of grapes at the grocery store is $1.44 per pound. There are approximately 0.45 kilograms in a pound. To the nearest cent, what is the price of grapes in dollars per kilogram?

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Jami needs to set her treadmill to 10 miles per hour to achieve her goal of running a mile in 6 minutes. The price of grapes is converted from $1.44 per pound to approximately $3.20 per kilogram after performing the necessary conversion using the given weight ratio of pounds to kilograms.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the speed in miles per hour that Jami needs to set on her treadmill to run a mile in 6 minutes, we use the following conversion: since there are 60 minutes in an hour, we divide 60 by 6 to find the speed per hour. Therefore, 60 min / 6 min = 10 miles per hour. To convert the price of grapes from dollars per pound to dollars per kilogram, we need to know that there are approximately 0.45 kilograms in a pound. Since the price is $1.44 per pound, we take 1 pound / $1.44 and multiply this by the reciprocal of the kilograms per pound (1 / 0.45 kg). So, $1.44 / 0.45 kg = $3.20/kg. This means that the price per kilogram of grapes is $3.20 after rounding to the nearest cent.

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