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candy walks to his house which is 10.3 miles away, he walks at an average rate of 1/2 a mile in 5 minutes, how many hours will it take for him to get home.

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Final answer:

Candy will take approximately 1.72 hours to walk 10.3 miles at her average pace of half a mile every 5 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student has asked to determine the time it will take for Candy to walk home, covering a distance of 10.3 miles at an average rate of half a mile every 5 minutes.

To answer this, first we calculate the time it takes to walk one mile, and then, using that information, determine the total time for 10.3 miles.

First, since Candy walks 1/2 mile in 5 minutes, she would walk 1 mile in 10 minutes (double the distance, double the time).

Now, to find out how many hours she would take to walk 10.3 miles, we use the following steps:

  1. Calculate the total number of minutes to walk 10.3 miles:
  2. 10 minutes/mile × 10.3 miles = 103 minutes.
  3. Convert minutes to hours, since there are 60 minutes in an hour:
  4. 103 minutes ÷ 60 minutes/hour = 1.7166 hours.

Therefore, it will take Candy approximately 1.72 hours to walk home.

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