Question

Coach Right is looking at his students' running times in order to place students into running groups. He is working on forming a group that matches Jim's pace of 4 miles in 38 minutes. Which of these student times would fit into a group that runs at the exact same rate as Jim? Prax ran 6 miles in 57 minutes. Jose ran 5 miles in 45.5 minutes. Sandy ran 7 miles in 66.5 minutes. Zynep ran 3 miles in 27 minutes

Answer 1

The students that would fit into a group that runs at the same rate as Jim are:

Prax ran 6 miles in 57 minutes.

Sandy ran 7 miles in 66.5 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation:

The reasons behind this answer are the following, first of all, we need to use logic to establish a factor that lets us associated them with Jim. We have only three actors. Names, miles run, and time. Now, names are irrelevant because we can't find an objective value on them. Therefore, we focus on the average time spent for a mile ran. We divide 38 minutes in 4 miles which are Jim's numbers and we obtain 9.5 minutes for each mile, then we divide everyone's minutes in miles and we obtain that Pra and sandy fit the 9,5 minutes per mile factor to be part of Jim's group.