Question

Kelly is attending physical therapyCB after knee surgery he walked 9 1/4 miles over 3 days how many miles is the per day simplilfy the answer as a mixed number

Answer 1

The miles per day are: 3 1/12.

Explanation:

With the information provided, in order to find the miles per day you have to divide the number of miles he walked by 3 that is the number of days:

9 1/4÷3

In order to solve this, first you have to convert the mixed number to an improper fraction by multiplying the denominator for the whole number, add the numerator and this would be divided by the denominator:

(4*9)+1/4

36+1/4

37/4

Now, you divide this by 3:

37/4÷3

37/(4*3)

37/12

You can conver this fraction into a mixed number by dividing 37 by 12. 12 goes into 37 three times which would be the whole number. Then, three times 12 is 36 and the remainder is 1. So, 1 would be the numerator and the denominator stays th same which is 12. The mixed number is: 3 1/12.

According to this, the answer is that the miles per day are: 3 1/12.