Question

Linda hiked 10 miles last weekend. She plans to hike 3/5 of that distance next weekend. enter the distance in miles that Linda plans to hike next weekend

Answer 1

6 Miles

Explanation:

What do we know: Linda hiked 10 miles last weekend, and she plans to walk 3/5ths of that next weekend.

Thus, we take 10 and multiply it by 3/5.

To understand it all better, let's write the equation like this, X will be the number of miles Linda plans to hike next weekend.

`(10)/(1)`×
`(3)/(5)` =
`(30)/(5)`

Afterwards we can simplify like so, factoring 5 from both the numerator and the denominator:

`(5(6))/(5(1))`

The 5's in the numerator and denominator cancel out, leaving us with:

`(6)/(1)`

Or in simpler terms 6. Thus we can know that Linda will hike 6 miles next weekend.