Question

Jenny starts running at a pace of 10 miles per hour. Her calf starts to hurt after 12 minutes, so she slows down to 6 miles per hour for the rest of her run. If the total distance she runs is 5 miles, how many minutes was the run, in total?

Answer 1

42 minutes

Explanation:

Here we want to calculate the number of minutes ran in total.

Kindly note that;

Time = distance/speed

Her starting speed is 10 miles/hour

but she ran for 12 minutes.

Kindly note that 12 minutes = 12/60 = 1/5 = 0.2 hour

So total distance in the first 12 minutes is speed * time = 10 * 0.2 = 2 miles

Now the rest of distance to run would be ;

5 -2 = 3 miles

She ran 3 miles at a speed of 6 miles per hour.

Time spent here is 3/6 = 0.5 hours which is same as 30 minutes

Total time spent = 30 + 12 = 42 minutes