Question

A motor racing circuit has length 55 miles. A straight section of the circuit has length 14 miles. What fraction of the circuit is the straight section? Give your answer in its simplest form.

Answer 1

To find the fraction of the circuit that the straight section represents, we need to divide the length of the straight section by the total length of the circuit:

14 miles / 55 miles

This fraction can be simplified by dividing both the numerator and denominator by 7:

2 miles / 11 miles

Therefore, the straight section represents a fraction of 2/11 of the entire circuit.