Question

the red trail is 3 1/4 miles long. the blue trail is 7/8 times as. long as the red trail. a group finished hiking 3/5 of the red trail when it started to rain. what is the distance that they hiked before it started to rain?

Answer 1

2 13/20

Dude the blue trail is trying to trick you. scratch it out.

Explanation:

Make the denominators the same

3 1/4 -->3 5/20

3/5 --> 12/20

covert this to an improper fraction-->3 5/20 --> 65/20

Subtract 65/20 - 12/20= 53/20

simplify 53/20 --> 2 13/20