Question

A ski resort owner is working on a ski run which is 1 5 mile long. The workers divided the ski run into 2 equal sections. Dylan claims that each section of ski run is 2 5 mile long. Is Dylan's claim correct?

Answer 1

Dylan's claim is incorrect; when dividing a 1 5 mile long ski run into two equal sections, each section is 1 2 mile long, not 2 5 mile long.

Step-by-step explanation:

No, Dylan's claim that each section of the ski run is 2 5 mile long is incorrect. When the 1 5 mile long ski run is divided into 2 equal sections, each section should be half of 1 5 mile.

To find this, you divide 1 5 by 2, which results in 5 10 or 1 2 of a mile. Therefore, each section would be 1 2 mile long, not 2 5 mile long as claimed by Dylan.