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A person runs 1 4/5 miles in 1/5 of an hour determine how many miles they are running per hour

User Loveleen
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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation: There are different methods to solve this, but I chose to change these into decimals- 1.8 and .20, to make it easier. Since miles per hour is speed, and speed is distance divided by time, all you have to do is fill in the blanks.

Since 1.8 / .20= 9, the answer is 9 miles per hour.

To take it a step farther, you could multiply this by any number of hours, or convert it to minutes. For example, to figure out how far they'd get in 10 minutes, I could divide the unit rate by 60, since there are 60 minutes in an hour, and get 0.15. So, in 10 minutes, they'd get 0.15 miles away.

Just in the mood for math, ig.

Ew, did I just say that? >.<

User Stan Smulders
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Multiply 1 4/5 by 5
9/5 * 5/1 = 45/5 = 9 miles
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