Question

A gazelle runs 780 feet in 12 seconds. Angela wants to determine how far a gazelle could run in 1 minute at this rate. Explain how to use equivalent fractions to find the distance a gazelle could run in 1 minute. Then write the equivalent fractions.

Answer 1

In 1 min a gazelle runs 3,900 ft.

As a fraction, 1/65

In order to find the solution to this problem you could use a table.

Since we are using seconds we have to convert the 1 min = 60 seconds.

Sec | 12 | 60

Fts | 780 | x

12 goes into 60 5 times, so we have to multiply 780 by 5 which gives us 3900.

x=3900