Bill has ridden 68 miles of a bike course. The course is 85 miles long what percentage of the course has bill ridden so far

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asked Feb 13, 2023 208k views

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Leonard Michalas · Answer 1 · 2023-02-18T06:34:09+0000

We can state this question as a rule of three, that is,

$\begin{gathered} 85\text{ miles ------ 100 \%} \\ 65\text{ miles ------- x} \end{gathered}$

then, x is given as

$\begin{gathered} x=\frac{(65\text{ miles) (100 \%)}}{\text{85 miles}} \\ \end{gathered}$

which gives

$\begin{gathered} x=(6500)/(85)\text{ \%} \\ x=76.47\text{ \%} \end{gathered}$

Then, the answer is 76.47 %

We know that the total miles is 85 miles. So we can find the ratio of traveled miles to total miles, which is

This means that 65 miles represents 0.7647 of 85 miles. In percentaje, this corresponds to 7