Question

What strategy would be the best to solve this problem?To get into shape, Miles ran for 1 minute on Monday, 3 minutes on Tuesday, 6 minutes on Wednesday, and 10 minutes on Thursday. If he continues, how many minutes will Miles run on Sunday?A. guess, check and reviseB. work backwardsC. use a formulaD. look for patterns

Answer 1

As we can see from the given data, that, it gives some informtaion about, an on going process, that is almost in rythm.

`\begin{gathered} 1\text{ minute:Monday} \\ 3\text{minute: Tuesday} \\ 6\text{minute: Wednesday} \\ 10\text{ minutes: Thursday} \end{gathered}`

So, from that we can see that, Mile had increased the running time in a particular pattern, at first he had increased the time by 2, then by 3, then by 4, and so on.

So to find the running time for sunday, we can solve this problem by analysing this pattern.

Therefore the answer is (D): looking for patterns.