Question

Laila has walked 2 miles. Her goal is to walk 6 miles. Lily plans to reach her goal by walking 3 miles each hour h for the rest of her walk. Write an equation to find the number of hours it will take lily to reach her goal.

Answer 1

It will take Lily 4/3 hours to reach her goal of walking 6 miles.

Explanation:

To find the number of hours it will take Lily to reach her goal of walking 6 miles, we can set up an equation.

Let's use the variable "x" to represent the number of hours it will take Lily to reach her goal.

We know that Lily plans to walk 3 miles each hour for the rest of her walk. Since she has already walked 2 miles, the remaining distance she needs to cover is 6 - 2 = 4 miles.

Now we can set up the equation: 3x = 4.

This equation represents that Lily will walk 3 miles per hour for "x" hours, which will give her a total distance of 4 miles.

To solve this equation for "x", we need to divide both sides by 3:

3x/3 = 4/3.

Simplifying, we get:

x = 4/3.