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A person is running a distance rate at a constant rate. What time will they finish the race? What information would i need to be able to dolve this problem?

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We know


D=RT

Where

D is the distance

R is the rate (or speed)

T is the time

We would need to know ANY 2 variables to solve for the 3rd variable.

Since, we want to know the time (T), we MUST somehow know R (rate/speed) and D (distance).

This way, we will be able to solve the problem.

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