Question

A woman takes 121212 equal-sized steps. She walks a total of 10 \text { yards}10 yards10, start text, space, y, a, r, d, s, end text. How many inches long is each step? inches

Answer 1

Each step she took was 30 inches long.

Explanation:

In order to solve this problem we first need to convert the distance travelled by the woman from yards to inches, to do that we must multiply the value by 36 as shown below:

distance = (10 yards)*36 =360 inches

We now need to divide the total distance travelled by the number of steps that the woman took.

distance per step = distance/number of steps = 360/12

distance per step = 30 inches

Each step she took was 30 inches long.