Question

A mouse traveled a total distance of 3/24 of a mile in a maze over the past three hours the mouse travel the same distance each hour to determine the distance that the mouse traveled age our map reformed the calculations below he concluded that the mouse travel 3/8 of a mile each hour what is Matt’s error

Answer 1

Matt should have divided 3 by 3, not 24 by 3. (C.)

Explanation:

since its a whole number you do not divide it at all.

Also:

Answer 2

Total distance mouse traveled in 3 hours =
`(3)/(24)` of a mile

The mouse traveled the same distance in each hour. So in order to find the distance covered in 1 hour we have to divide the distance covered in 3 hours by 3. This will give us the distance that the mouse traveled in one hour.

So, the distance traveled in one hour will be =
`(3)/(24) / 3 = (3)/(24) * (1)/(3) =(1)/(24)` of a mile

The error which Matt made was that he divided only the denominator of the expression by 3, this probably was a calculation error.

Correct conclusion will be: Mouse travel 1/24 of a mile each hour