Question

3. Martin finishes a swim race in 78.934 seconds. His teammate, Abby finishes the race in 83.978 seconds and their last teammate finishes the race in 84.765 seconds.

If the teammates were to have a combined time of less than 250 seconds to qualify to the next round, did they qualify or not? How do you know?


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Answer 1

You would add up the times each person got when the finished the race. Which equals out to 247.677 seconds, which Is lower than 250 making your answer yes they did qualify. We know this because we added up the times and it came out to lower than 250